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Entry | The Portable Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, …

The Portable Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, selected and edited by M. I. Finley

Typology: Translation | Language: English | Place of publication: New York | Publisher: The Viking Press | Year: 1959

Greek Text: no

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

Translation from Crawley 1874, edited by Finley, of selected passages from the History: Thuc. 1.1-88 (The Beginnings); 2.34-46 (Pericles' Funeral Oration); 2.47-54 (Athens' Plague); 3.27-50 (The Mitylenian Debate); 3.70-83 (The Stasis at Corcyra); 6.1-93 (The War in Sicily); 7.36-87 (The Sicilian Disaster).

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