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Thucydides and Xenophon - eugene - 11-25-2009
Does somebody has any articles about Thucydides, Xenophon: their lives, ideas and historiographical method? I am also interested in the articles and books about their views on war and warfare .
Re: Thucydides and Xenophon - D B Campbell - 11-25-2009
You may be interested in Bob Strassler's new Landmark editions of Xenophon and Thucydides, with copious maps, notes and appendices. (He previously did Herodotus, and Caesar's Gallic War is in progress.)
Re: Thucydides and Xenophon - Jona Lendering - 11-25-2009
I was deeply impressed by Simon Horblower's Thucydides, and I think that it is still a good book.
Re: Thucydides and Xenophon - Paullus Scipio - 11-26-2009
J.K. Anderson, author of "Military Theory and Practice in the age of Xenophon", indispensible to any student of military affairs of the era, also wrote an excellent biography of him for the Classical Life and Letters series published by Duckworth;
"Xenophon" J.K. Anderson, pub. by Gerald Duckworth & co, London 1974 ISBN 0 7156 0702 2
He also gets 10 pages or so in Michael Grant's "The Ancient Historians", but Thucydides does better with 45 pages. The book is an excellent summation of all our major Greek and Latin sources;
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"The Ancient Historians" Michael Grant, pub by Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, London 1970 SBN 297 00080 2
Re: Thucydides and Xenophon - MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS - 11-26-2009
Martin Hammond's translation of Thucydides (Oxford Press) has a nice intro in which he writes about the historiography of Thucydides and also views expressed by Ranke etc.
a very enjoyable book.
M.VIB.M.
Re: Thucydides and Xenophon - eugene - 05-15-2010
I have heard that not long ago it has benn edited in Germany a recent research about Thucydides s views on warfare. Does anybody posesses information about this book (full title, place of edition etc.)?
Re: Thucydides and Xenophon - Paralus - 05-18-2010
Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War, George Cawkwell. An essay based book on Thucydides' treatment of the war, Cleon, Alcibiades, Imperialism, et al.
Athens and Sparta: constructing Greek political and social history from 478 BC, Anton Powell. A discussion of Sparto-Athenian relations based on source criticism of Thucydides.
Re: Thucydides and Xenophon - D B Campbell - 05-18-2010
Quote:I have heard that not long ago it has benn edited in Germany a recent research about Thucydides s views on warfare.Is it this one? Or maybe this one?
Re: Thucydides and Xenophon - Xenophon223 - 06-11-2010
The Long March: Xenophon and Ten Thousand, Robin Lane Fox ed. Yale University Press, 2004 0-300-10403-0
It's a collection of essays from a 2001 Oxford seminar on Xenophon. It's a great read and one of the coolest surprises my wife ever gave me.