Thucydides, Donald Kagan
Thucydides, Donald Kagan
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Thucydides
The Reinvention of History

Author: Donald Kagan

Narrator: Paul Hecht

Unabridged: 9 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/11/2010

Synopsis

Donald Kagan-Yale's Sterling Professor of Classics and History-delivers a compelling new look at revisionism in Thucydides' classic History of the Peloponnesian War. To determine how accurate and dispassionate the Athenian general really was, Kagan exposes his epic to an enlightening and thorough analysis. Using contemporary and modern sources, Kagan reveals the exiled aristocrat's biases, prejudices, and his clear intention to spin events in his own way.

About Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University, the recipient of a National Humanities Medal for 2002, and one of the preeminent scholars of ancient Greek history.

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Goodreads review by David

Exploring a War Through the Eyes of an Historian 22 February 2020 - Berri I guess it was time for me to read some non-fiction, since I have been reading quite a few fiction works of late (though I generally don’t put the ancient works that I read into the category of non-Fiction, namely because in m......more

Goodreads review by Gary

Thucydides' book transcends history. It is not great because of the history it is telling; it is great for how he tells his story. Kagan dumbs Thucydides’ book down by falsely thinking of it as primarily a history book. That is a misreading on what Thucydides accomplishes. There is a universal natur......more

Goodreads review by Derek

This was a very solid history of the war. It sometimes didn’t seem to deliver on its promise of focusing on the Thucydides’ new approach to history but, over time, Kagan tells us where Thucydides personal biases affected his judgments about Athenian leaders and strategic decisions.......more

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