The Portable Greek Historians The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius

by Finley, M. I.

• ISBN13: 9780140150650
• ISBN10: 014015065X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1977-09-29
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

Essential passages from the works of four "fathers of history"-Herodotus's History, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's Anabasis, and Polybius's Histories.

Author Biography

M. I. Finley was a professor of ancient history and master of Darwin College, Cambridge. He died in 1986.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(21)
A Brief Reading List	22	(2)
Map	24	(3)
Herodotus	27	(190)
From Book I
Lydia	29	(34)
From Book II
The Antiquity of Egypt	63	(2)
The Nile Flood	65	(3)
Manners and Customs	68	(3)
Origins of the Greek Gods	71	(3)
The Truth about the Trojan War	74	(5)
The Building of the Pyramids	79	(2)
From Book VII
The Persian War after Marathon	81	(76)
From Book VIII
The Persian War after Marathon (Continued)	157	(60)
Thucydides	217	(164)
From Book I
The Beginnings	218	(47)
From Book II
The Funeral Oration of Pericles	265	(8)
The Plague in Athens	273	(5)
From Book III
The Mitylenian Debate	278	(12)
Sedition in Corcyra	290	(8)
From Book VI
The War in Sicily	298	(49)
From Book VII
The Sicilian Disaster	347	(34)
Xenophon: The Anabasis	381	(60)
From Book I	383	(7)
From Book II	390	(27)
From Book III	417	(7)
From Book IV	424	(17)
Polybius	441	(32)
From Book I
Introduction	442	(5)
From Book II
Aratus of Sicyon and the Achaean League	447	(26)
From Book VI
The Roman Constitution	473