Thucydides Mythistoricus /

Thucydides Mythistoricus / / Francis M. Cornford.

This book falls into two parts: Thucydides Historicus and Thucydides Mythicus. In the first, Francis M. Cornford attempts to prove the inadequacy of Thucydides's account of the origins of the Peloponnesian War and develops a very different theory of its causes. In the second part he attempts to...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Cornford, Francis M.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1972
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (268 p.) :; 3 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Chapter I. The Causes of The War
  • Chapter II. Athenian Parties before The War
  • Chapter III. The Megarian Decrees
  • Chapter IV. The Western Policy
  • Chapter V. Thucydides' Conception of History
  • Introductory
  • Chapter VI. The Luck of Pylos
  • Chapter VII. The Most Violent of The Citizens
  • Chapter VIII. Mythistoria and The Drama
  • Chapter IX. Peitho
  • Chapter X. The Melian Dialogue
  • Chapter XI. The Lion's Whelp
  • Chapter XII. Eros Tyrannus
  • Chapter XIII. The Tragic Passions
  • Chapter XIV. The Cause of The War
  • Index

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