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Entry | Thucydides, by the rev. W. Lucas Collins

Thucydides, by the rev. W. Lucas Collins

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Content: Anthologies | Athens’ Plague | The Debate on Mytilene | The Stasis at Corcyra | The Sicilian Expedition

William Lucas Collins (1817-1887), clergyman and classical scholar. Collins was educated at Rugby School under Thomas Arnold and at Jesus College, Oxford, where he earned second-class honours in classics. Ordained in 1840, he served in various parishes including Cheriton (Glamorgan), Great Houghton, Kilsby, Lowick, and Slipton, and held an honorary canonry at Peterborough Cathedral from 1870. Collins had a parallel literary career, contributing regularly to Blackwood’s Magazine on topics ranging from university life to public school traditions. He was also the editor of the Ancient Classics for English Readers series, contributing volumes on Homer's Iliad (1870) and Thucydides (1878). ODBN

An anthology of selected passages from the History: Thuc. 1.20-22; 5.26 (Introductory); 1.89, 91 (Preliminary history); 68-71, 78, 86 (Causes of the war); 2.8, 16-17, 34, 36-41, 44-45 (Outbreak of hostilities), 49-53, 61-63, 65 (Athens' Plague); 2.72; 3.23, 59 (The siege of Plaaea); 2.91-92; 3.38, 40, 49 (The Debate on Mytilene); 3.81-83; 4.47-48 (The Stasis at Corcyra); 4.11-12, 80 (Demosthenes and Cleon); 4.104, 107; 5.16 (Thucydides at Amphipolis); 5.60, 70 (Argos), 89 (The fate of Melos); 4.59-65; 6.12-13, 16, 24, 30, 32, 92 (The Sicilian Expedition); 7.42, 48, 71, 75, 77 (The Disaster at Syracuse), summarized, paraphrased, partially translated into English, and accompanied by commentary.

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