Thucydides Mythistoricus - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... INDEX Aechna and Egypt, 38. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 144; Agam. 293-328,149 ; 330 S., 156; 353S., 214; 717ff., 193 ; 801-965, 160; 1371-1576, 161; Ptrsians, 134; Art-form of his drama, 139 ff.; psychology, 154 ff., 234, 236; free-will, 154. Alciriades, Melian massacre, 186; idealized, 188; deludes Spartan envoys, 191; Sicilian expedition, 205 S. Alcmaeonid curse, 245 ff. Aliens, influx of, 19. Allegoey, 230. Anaxagoras, 73, 107. Apate, on Darius vase, 196; in Aeschylus, 234. Aristophanes, Acharnians, 83, 26; Frogs, 1425, 193; Knights, 125 ff., 22; 1303, 45. Carthage, 44. Cause, and pretext, 53; Polybius' distinction, 57; meaning of atria, 57 ff.; only psychological causes in ancient historians, 64; causes of human events, 68. Cleon, leader of Piraeus, 22; Thucydides' treatment of, 80; 'malignity' against, 96, 110; Pylos negotiations, 110-114, 119; Mytilenean debate, 114; Sphacteria, 116; Amphipolis, 118; his career dramatized, 125; as Elpis, 171. Clytemnestra, as Peitho, 160. Commercial Party, 18; policy, 31. Corcyra, alliance, 40, 43-44, 51. Corinth, position on Isthmus, 34. Country against town at Athena, 16. Daemons, and passions, 157; and gods, 231. Darius vase, 195. Diodotus, Mytilenean speech, 121, 221, 242. Dionysius, on Melian Dialogue, 174 ff. Drama, influence on Thucydides, 137 ff. Economics, 71. Egesta, 199. Egyptian expedition, 37. Elpis, in Diodotus' speech, 122; Cleon, 171; Melian Dialogue, 178, 184; conception of, 167; in Hesiod, 224; as Ker, 225, 232. Eros, in Diodotus' speech, 122; in Agamemnon, 156, 214; Alcib- iades, 206 ff.; and tyranny, 207; Phthonos, 235. Euripides, Hippolytus, 243. Everyman, 141. Fortune, as agency, 97 ff.; and foresight, 104 ff.; in Diodotus' speech, 122 ; and ' reversal', 222. Gomperz, 68. Harmodius...
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The late F.M. Cornford was Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1899 to 1943 and Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge from 1931 to 1939.
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 123038989X
- ISBN 13 9781230389899
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages92
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