YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Book II of the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
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even falling ill himself (Halsall Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Britannica: Thucydides). During a heated campaign in 424, Thuc...
In five pages this paper compares these two works in terms of wartime reality portrayals. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...
ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...
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 four pages this paper examines the historical text on the Pelopponesian War by Thucydides in a consideration of the cultural di...
This 5 page paper summarizes the major themes of Thucydides' accounts of the Peloponnesian War. The bibliography lists the primary...
At the beginning of this extended speech, the representative from Corcyra prefaces his narrative of events with an appeal that is ...
This 5 page paper argues that Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War states that the reason for the conflict was the politic...
aid and had been made a part of the defensive alliance formed by the Athenians. Since Corinth was allied with Sparta, the foundati...
In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...
the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...
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 a paper consisting of six pages the writer argues that in History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides regards the Athens defeat...
has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...
a decidedly different climate in relation to justice. The end of the Classical period brought with it Alexanders death, as well a...
or her to make allowances for the various aspects of the book that seem somewhat sensationalized or overblown. It will also serve ...
describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...
see. But the reporter was in Germany at the end of WWI and found the social and economic conditions there to be deplorable. The co...
This paper examines the pre World War II appeasement policies of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain in tewnty seven pages....
the beast that was the Holocaust. It is presented as cold and unemotional in many ways, through these very depictions, and also su...
In this five page paper the writer explores the book by Tom Engelhardt from a personal perspective. Insight is provided as to how...
heroism and bravery, there is no feeling that he is bragging or presenting the Sterett crew of entirely composed of heroes. Rather...
In ten pages three ancient historical texts are analyzed in terms of author's approach to history, the representation of the past,...
relationship to one complaint and event prior to the war: "the complaint of Corinth was that her colony of Potidaea, and Corinthia...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...
in eight categories: ordinary people; home front; heroes; women in uniform and out; shame; love, marriage and commitment; famous p...
In five pages a book review of The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II by Herbert Feis is presented in an examination of the a...
One that attracts a great deal of attention as been the American Kennedy Family, others may be less well known as it s the accumul...
All five opposed King Richard III and, at various times, were personally accused of treason by Richard. Chapter 2 gives a brief in...