Thucydides: The Reinvention of History

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 10/26/2010
ISBN: 9780143118299
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.52w x 0.59d