Stories from Thucydides
Thucydides
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Description
H. L. Havell retold Stories from Thucydides, opening with a line from Shakespeare's Henry IV about a kingdom sick with civil blows. The prologue recalls how Greece threw back Xerxes, then turns to the war between Athens and her rivals.
Havell calls that war cruel and wasting: it lasted twenty-seven years and broke up the Athenian empire, rising from envy of Athens's power. His contents pick the great episodes. They give the plague at Athens and the siege of Plataea. They give the capture of a hundred and twenty Spartans at Sphacteria. They close with Brasidas in Thrace and the Athenian venture in Sicily. The retelling makes a hard history readable.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Thucydides |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 386 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |