Description
The bestselling author of The Peloponnesian War examines Thucydides as the first modern historian. Donald Kagan's magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War is recognized as a landmark of classical scholarship. Now, Kagan-one of the most respected classical historians in the world-turns his attention from one of the greatest conflicts in history to the author who so magnificently chronicled it: Thucydides, the first truly modern historian. This study offers readers a remarkable opportunity to experience one great historian engaging another across the centuries, in a work that is at once an engrossing voyage of discovery, a moving tribute, and a revelatory meditation on the practice of history and its value in human affairs.
Author: Donald Kagan
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 10/26/2010
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.52w x 0.59d
ISBN13: 9780143118299
ISBN10: 0143118293
BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient | Greece
- History | Historiography
Author: Donald Kagan
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 10/26/2010
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.52w x 0.59d
ISBN13: 9780143118299
ISBN10: 0143118293
BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient | Greece
- History | Historiography
About the Author
Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University. His four-volume History of the Peloponnesian War is the leading scholarly work on the subject. He is also the author of many books on ancient and modern topics.