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The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War (1996), an edition of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War, translated by Richard Crawley. ISBN 978-1416590873, xxxiv+713 pages.
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War. New York: Free Press (1996). ISBN 0-684-82815-4. Thucydides, Thucydidis, olori fil, De bello peloponnesiacoa libri VIII, Versione Latina, (London 1819)
The Landmark Thucydides, Edited by Robert B. Strassler, Richard Crawley translation, Annotated, Indexed and Illustrated, A Touchstone Book, New York, 1996 ISBN 0-684-82815-4 * Thucydidis Historiae, 3 vols., ed. Ioannes Baptista Alberti, Rome, Typis Officinae polygraphicae, 1972–2000 (a standard text edition).
Arrhabaeus, the rebellious king of Lyncestis (also Lyncus), was subject to Perdiccas, whom Perdiccas at the time wanted to subordinate to Argead control. [3] Much of what is known about the Macedonian kings before Alexander I relates to their struggles against Illyrian incursions.
He appears to have died after 411 BC, as Thucydides' history does not record his death or the appearance of his successor. In 405 BC the exiled Athenian commander Alcibiades boasted of his friendship with the Thracian kings Medocus/ Amadocus I and Seuthes to the other Athenian commanders before the Battle of Aegospotami . [ 11 ]
Thucydides' political strength reached its peak in the wake of the First Peloponnesian War and the reorganization of the Athenian empire in the early 440s BC. Thucydides developed a new and effective political tactic by having his supporters sit together in the assembly, increasing their apparent strength and giving them a united voice. [3]
Several funeral orations from classical Athens are extant, which seem to corroborate Thucydides's assertion that this was a regular feature of Athenian funerary custom in wartime. [a] The Funeral Oration was recorded by Thucydides in book two of his famous History of the Peloponnesian War.
Thucydides portrayed Astyochus as timid and inept, and also depicted him as often in conflict with his peers in Ionia. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Toward the end of his time as commander, he exhibited great reluctance to attack the Athenians and also failed to properly pay his troops, leading to riots and violence, and eventually, his removal as commander in ...