Research Catalog

Title

A strategist in exile : Xenophon and the death of Thucydides / Rainer Nickel.

Author

Nickel, Rainer, 1940-

Publication

• Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2016.
• ©2016

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Description

viii, 130 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Thucydides was the chronicler of the almost 30-year long Peloponnesian war, which came to a close with Sparta's victory over Athens in 404 BC. His famous historical work was preserved, but ends abruptly many ears before the end of the war. It was continued decades later by Xenophon, with his "Greek history", Hellenica. Following Athens defeat by Sparta, an Athenian court judged Thucydides to be responsible for the defeat, forcing him to flee his hometown and live on the northern coast of the Aegean Sea until the end of the Peloponnesian War. After his return from exile, he meets with the young Xenophon, but disappears without a trace shortly after. This book covers Xenophon's search for Thucydides, the "failed strategist", in order to protect his friend from the Thirty Tyrants' regime of terror, as well as save some important historical documents which he had placed in Thucydides' safe keeping. The narrative is based on the linking of historical reports of the operations, plausible constructions and imagined recollections in order to create a coherent narrative, allowing us a first-hand insight into the operations based on fact, not fiction."--Dustjacket.

Uniform Title

Verbannte Stratege. English

Alternative Title

• Verbannte Stratege.
• Xenophon and the death of Thucydides

Subject

• Thucydides
• Xenophon
• Thucydides ca. 460 v. Chr.-400 v. Chr
• Xenophon v430-v354
• To 146 B.C
• Authors, Greek > Biography
• Historians > Greece > Biography
• Écrivains grecs > Biographies
• Authors, Greek
• Historians
• Historiography
• Peloponnesischer Krieg
• Greece > Historiography
• Greece > History > To 146 B.C
• Greece > History > Expedition of Cyrus, 401 B.C
• Athens (Greece) > History > Thirty Tyrants, 404-403 B.C
• Grèce > Histoire > Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C
• Grèce > Histoire > 401 av. J.-C. (Expédition de Cyrus)
• Athènes (Grèce) > Histoire > 404-403 av. J.-C. (Trente Tyrans)
• Greece
• Greece > Athens
• (VLB-WN)1944: Hardcover, Softcover / Sachbücher/Geschichte/Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Antike

Genre/Form

• Creative nonfiction
• Biographies
• History
• Historische Romane und Erzählungen
• Fiktionale Darstellung
• Creative nonfiction.
• Essais fictionnels.

Note

• Originally published as: Der verbannte Stratege : Xenophon und der Tod des Thukydides by Phillip von Zabern in 2014.
• "The narrative is presented alternately as historical and fictionalised [in italics]"--Page vi.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-125) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Overview -- Story -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Name and Terms.

ISBN

• 1473846994
• 9781473846999

OCLC

920724454

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library