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I read Thucydides' famous history years ago and the first book of Kagan's quadrology soon after. This book was a great refresher for me. And I can see how it would definitely help someone who's either reading the original history or planning to.Zagorin manages to put the work into perspective without burdening the reader with too much scholarship -- just enough to give you a sense of the debates from ancient times to today. The notes are helpful to those who get bitten by the scholar bug.Some wi...
Really good book for the topic. Suggested reading at the US Army War College I picked this up for a paper and it proved very useful.
Το βιβλίο που με έκανε να διαβάσω τον Θουκυδίδη για πρώτη φορά!
While watching some football, I finished reading Perez Zagorin’s Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader [that’s me]. In this biography/exegesis, Zagorin offers some insight into Thucydides and his History of the Peloponnesian War.In the opening chapters, Professor Zagorin demonstrates how Thucydides differed from his predecessors, such as Herodotus, in the structure of his work, but more importantly in its aim. Thucydides was the first historian for whom accuracy and truth were of pri...
Pretty good and short description of the Thucydides work. I do want to read original work, before going any further into praising the book.
