Suffering and Greatness: the Human Condition in Thucydides' Perspective

About This Novel

Through the analysis of the text of "The History of the Peloponnesian War", this book reveals that the ancient Greek historian's main criterion for judging greatness was suffering (Greek Pathos); it further interprets some of the most representative text fragments in Thucydides' narrative, and explores how the basic concept of "suffering and greatness" affects Thucydides' views on the historical situation of mankind and his writing.

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