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In a paper consisting of six pages the writer argues that in History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides regards the Athens defeat...
In five pages this paper considers the text's structure and also discusses how the war is presented in terms of the primary themes...
In five pages this paper discusses the issue of the weak being subjugated by the strong that is presented in this ancient historic...
In a paper consisting of 10 pages the ways in which Thucydides depicted Sparta and Athens in terms of their cultural and social sy...
In four pages this paper examines the historical text on the Pelopponesian War by Thucydides in a consideration of the cultural di...
In five pages this paper compares these two works in terms of wartime reality portrayals. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...
even falling ill himself (Halsall Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Britannica: Thucydides). During a heated campaign in 424, Thuc...
by, at least, a millennium. For them, they are merely being "realistic" and that such realism can serve as a basis for a social or...
In ten pages three ancient historical texts are analyzed in terms of author's approach to history, the representation of the past,...
aid and had been made a part of the defensive alliance formed by the Athenians. Since Corinth was allied with Sparta, the foundati...
At the beginning of this extended speech, the representative from Corcyra prefaces his narrative of events with an appeal that is ...
In six pages this paper discusses how the values of the societies of ancient Greece and Rome are reflected in such works of litera...
This 5 page paper summarizes the major themes of Thucydides' accounts of the Peloponnesian War. The bibliography lists the primary...
In five pages this paper discusses the effects and involvement of Athens in the ancient Mitylenian debate with Thucydides' texts c...
the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...
This 5 page paper argues that Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War states that the reason for the conflict was the politic...
In five page this paper considers Gods and their roles in ancient Greek society and literature in a consideration of a passage fro...
basically a war between Athens and Sparta (Thucydides, 1881). This came about as a result of the growth of the Athenian Empire, a...
This paper consists of eight pages and compares imperialism to Athenian democracy with the assistance of Thucydides and the qualit...
This 5 page paper is written as if it were a speech given by Thucydides to teh Athenian Asembly suggesting the action that should ...
In ten pages this paper refers to the writings of Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plato in a consideration of past and present politica...
for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...
what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...
after being cast into the water in a basket -- survived and ultimately grew up with the intent to seek revenge against the king (a...
In five pages this paper examines the organization of history according to the different perspectives of Edward Gibbon, Thucydides...
events surrounding the Peloponessian War, but also the views of other cultures which sometimes conflicted with his own sensibiliti...
of the "old Roman people," as well as the reign of Augustus, "till growing sycophancy scared them away."4 Already hes suggesting t...
on certain players, who were central to the role of the Greeks above all others. "There was a literary consequence to this omissi...