Project | Global Thucydides
Catalogue | Digital catalogue
Entry | Ensayo histórico. Tucídides – El Epitafio de Pericles – Comentarios
Typology: Translation | Commentary | Language: Castilian | Place of publication: Santiago de Chile | Publisher: Universidad de Chile | Year: 1949
Greek Text: no
Content: Pericles’ Funeral Oration
Translation and commentary on Thuc. 2.34-46 (Pericles' Funeral Oration).
Preface by Juan Gómez Millas (1900-1987), educator, academic, and politician, professor of Universal History in the Instituto Pedagógico of the University of Chile since 1925. Gómez Millas directed the Institute of History and Geography, was appointed Secretary General of the University of Chile in 1931, served as Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education, and took part in drafting the University Statute that governed until the reforms of the 1960s. He also served as Rector of the University of Chile from 1953 to 1963. Moreover, Gómez Millas held the post of Minister of Education, first under President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (1952) and later under Eduardo Frei Montalva (1964-1968).
Malleros' translation was reissued in 2002, along with an essay by H. García Cataldo, entitled Tucídides y los tratados – see Malleros Kasimatis 2002.
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