Thucydides: A Very Short Introduction - Jennifer T. Roberts
Apr 08, 2025•4 hr 9 min
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Title: Thucydides: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Jennifer T. Roberts
Narrator: Dina Pearlman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4:08:36
Language: English
Release date: 04-08-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Ancient Civilizations, Military, History & Culture
Summary:
In 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Peloponnesus in southwestern Greece declared war on Athens, head of a mighty naval coalition. The war would last until Sparta finally brought Athens to its knees in 404. The Athenian aristocrat Thucydides, suspecting the magnitude of the conflict that was unfolding before his eyes, at once undertook to record its history, exploring the causes and course of the war in the context of his great interest: human nature. An introduction to Thucydides's thought and background, this book examines Thucydides's account of the war in the context both of the international situation in the classical Greek world and of the intellectual traditions of the fifth century BCE, exploring the historian's connection to prose writers like Herodotus as well as poets like Homer and the tragedians, and investigating the complex dynamics of the war that changed the Greek world forever.
https://hotaudiobook.com/free
Title: Thucydides: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Jennifer T. Roberts
Narrator: Dina Pearlman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4:08:36
Language: English
Release date: 04-08-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Ancient Civilizations, Military, History & Culture
Summary:
In 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Peloponnesus in southwestern Greece declared war on Athens, head of a mighty naval coalition. The war would last until Sparta finally brought Athens to its knees in 404. The Athenian aristocrat Thucydides, suspecting the magnitude of the conflict that was unfolding before his eyes, at once undertook to record its history, exploring the causes and course of the war in the context of his great interest: human nature. An introduction to Thucydides's thought and background, this book examines Thucydides's account of the war in the context both of the international situation in the classical Greek world and of the intellectual traditions of the fifth century BCE, exploring the historian's connection to prose writers like Herodotus as well as poets like Homer and the tragedians, and investigating the complex dynamics of the war that changed the Greek world forever.
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