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Author Taylor, Martha C. (Martha Caroline)

Title Thucydides, Pericles, and the idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War / Martha C. Taylor
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 311 pages) : maps
Contents Introduction: Foundation levels -- Pericles' city -- The sea and the city -- The city sets sail -- The oligarchic city -- The city on Samos
Summary Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War is the first comprehensive study of Thucydides' presentation of Pericles' radical redefinition of the city of Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Martha Taylor argues that Thucydides subtly critiques Pericles' vision of Athens as a city divorced from the territory of Attica and focused, instead, on the sea and the empire. Thucydides shows that Pericles' reconceputalization of the city led the Athenians both to Melos and to Sicily. Toward the end of his work, Thucydides demonstrates that flexible thinking about the city exacerbated the Athenians' civil war. Providing a thorough critique and analysis of Thucydides' neglected book 8, Taylor shows that Thucydides praises political compromise centered around the traditional city in Attica. In doing so, he implicitly censures both Pericles and the Athenian imperial project itself
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.
Pericles, approximately 495 B.C.-429 B.C.
SUBJECT Pericles, approximately 495 B.C.-429 B.C. fast
Thucydides. Historiae. swd
Perikles. swd
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides) fast
Subject City and town life -- Greece -- Athens -- History
City and town life -- Greece -- Athens -- Historiography
HISTORY -- Ancient.
City and town life
Historiography
Politics and government
Politics and government -- Historiography
Peloponnesischer Krieg
Außenpolitik
SUBJECT Athens (Greece) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009120
Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government
Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057083
Athens (Greece) -- Historiography
Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government -- Historiography
Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. -- Historiography
Subject Greece
Greece -- Athens
Athen
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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