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Thucydides: The Reinvention of History
by Donald Kagan
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Thucydides The Reinvention of History Thucydides The Reinvention of History Donald Kagan Penguin 2010 2009 257pp This book by the current eminent historian of the Peloponnesian War is about the first great study of that war written by the preeminent historian of the subject Thucydides Thucydides The Reinvention of History Air University Overall Thucydides The Reinvention of History is a good analysis of Thucydides albeit focused narrowly on potential biases of the historian It should not be the first text for those wanting to begin a study on the Peloponnesian War or Thucydides Thucydides The Reinvention of History by Donald Kagan Thucydides wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta and is widely credited as the first modern historian The book was written by Thucydides while in exile during the war and his based on his research as well as his first hand observations of many of the key debates and votes in the Athens council Thucydides The Reinvention of History by Donald Kagan Classicist Kagans Thucydides is not a biography but a blowbyblow account of the hostilities between Athens and Sparta from about 460 to 405 Kagan compares Thucydides great History of the Peloponnesian Wars with other surviving evidence to argue that while Thucydides sometimes interpreted events to justify his own failed role in the Thucydides The Reinvention of History by Donald Kagan Thucydides is persuasive about its namesake as a great if willful and biased historian but not in its broader aim to retell the story of the wars themselves Thucydides The Reinvention of History Thucydides An unsuccessful general and a devoted adherent of Pericles Thucydides believed that the Peloponnesian War was the most significant event in Greek history Thucydides The Reinvention of History by Donald Kagan Thucydides The Reinvention of History by Donald Kagan – review In a way he even refutes his own theory describing the death of Cleon the Athenian leader and low common demagogue if you listened to Thucydides killed by a javelin thrown by an enemy nobody in the muddle of a retreat as the Spartans said Kagan notes it would be quite a spear that could specifically choose a brave man Donald Kagans Thucydides The Reinvention of History Thucydides according to Kagan invented the project of objective political history He analyzed what Machiavelli would call “the effective truth of things”—the granular ugly facts of
