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Author of Illusions : Thucydides' Rewriting of the History of the Peloponnesian War
ISBN: 9781443827775
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: History;

Pericles, famed general and foremost political leader of Athens during her glory days of the 5th century, brought about the downfall of the Athenian empire almost single-handedly. This truth, obvious to contemporary Greeks, is today not generally understood, and we have Thucydides and his History of the Peloponnesian War to thank for the confusion. That Thucydides, a fierce partisan of Pericles and a soldier exiled for his own military misadventures, should wish to reinvent the history of tha...