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Wealth and power are themes that preoccupy much of Greek literature from Homer on, and this book unravels the significance of these subjects in one of the most famous pieces of narrative writing from classical antiquity. Lisa Kallet brilliantly reshapes our literary and historical understanding of Thucydides' account of the disastrous Sicilian expedition of 415–413 b.c., a pivotal event in the Peloponnesian War. She shows that the second half of Thucydides' <i>History</i> contains a damning crit
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- Author
- Kallet, Lisa
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520927421
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Finance, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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