The Portable Greek Historians The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius,9780140150650

The Portable Greek Historians The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius

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ISBN13: 9780140150650
ISBN10: 014015065X
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Pub. Date: 1977-09-29
Publisher(s): Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary

Essential passages from the works of four "fathers of history"-Herodotus's History, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's Anabasis, and Polybius's Histories.

Author Biography

M. I. Finley was a professor of ancient history and master of Darwin College, Cambridge. He died in 1986.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(21)
A Brief Reading List 22(2)
Map
24(3)
Herodotus
27(190)
From Book I
Lydia
29(34)
From Book II
The Antiquity of Egypt
63(2)
The Nile Flood
65(3)
Manners and Customs
68(3)
Origins of the Greek Gods
71(3)
The Truth about the Trojan War
74(5)
The Building of the Pyramids
79(2)
From Book VII
The Persian War after Marathon
81(76)
From Book VIII
The Persian War after Marathon (Continued)
157(60)
Thucydides
217(164)
From Book I
The Beginnings
218(47)
From Book II
The Funeral Oration of Pericles
265(8)
The Plague in Athens
273(5)
From Book III
The Mitylenian Debate
278(12)
Sedition in Corcyra
290(8)
From Book VI
The War in Sicily
298(49)
From Book VII
The Sicilian Disaster
347(34)
Xenophon: The Anabasis
381(60)
From Book I
383(7)
From Book II
390(27)
From Book III
417(7)
From Book IV
424(17)
Polybius
441(32)
From Book I
Introduction
442(5)
From Book II
Aratus of Sicyon and the Achaean League
447(26)
From Book VI
The Roman Constitution
473

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