--- product_id: 5117498 title: "Thucydides Reader: Annotated Passages from Books I-VIII of the Histories (Focus Classical Commentary) (Ancient Greek Edition)" brand: "thucydides" price: "€ 50.00" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 6 url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/5117498-thucydides-reader-annotated-passages-from-books-i-viii-of-histories store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # Thucydides Reader: Annotated Passages from Books I-VIII of the Histories (Focus Classical Commentary) (Ancient Greek Edition) **Brand:** thucydides **Price:** € 50.00 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Thucydides Reader: Annotated Passages from Books I-VIII of the Histories (Focus Classical Commentary) (Ancient Greek Edition) by thucydides - **How much does it cost?** € 50.00 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/5117498-thucydides-reader-annotated-passages-from-books-i-viii-of-histories) ## Best For - thucydides enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted thucydides brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐ Nice, but… *by H***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2015* On the surface this seems like a great idea: take short passages in Greek from Thucydides massive work and annotate them for the middle or beginner student. In practice it doesn’t work out that well. As a beginner-middle or middle-beginner I find the commentary only partially adequate for some of the very difficult passages presented, such as The Melian dialogue. The cost is also an issue with the Bryn Mawr commentaries [see: Thucydides Book 6 (Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Greek)] much cheaper, and Thucydides: Events at Pylos and Sphacteria by M. Campbell more complete with vocabulary for each section and an extensive discussion of Thucydides’ grammatical eccentricities, which are legendary. Of course you get a greater selection in Blasy’s work, which is nice, but at the expense of clarity and coherence as it is mostly short excerpts. ### ⭐⭐⭐ IMPORTANT NOTE: This book is not for self-study *by M***A on Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2011* I am giving this book a three-star rating so that it averages out with the earlier one- and five-star reviews that have preceded it. Having not read the book in its entirety, I cannot give a fair evaluation of its worth, but there IS yet something I can bring to the attention of the potential emptor. I quote below from the work's preface, specifically from page ix ..."Whereas Thucydides has Pericles say (in the Funeral Oration) that Athens is a self-sufficient (...) polis, I cannot make a claim of self-sufficiency for this Reader. It is, on the contrary, designed to be a textbook that calls for the constant input of the instructor. In other words, I did not envision an all-in-one, self-contained, "teach yourself Thucydides" textbook, but I had in mind one where the instructor is continually called upon to provide additional background information, a more thorough historical contextualization, and a more detailed analysis of the syntax..."This page is NOT included in the Look Inside feature of the book, so I had no idea that it was not intended for individuals who, like myself, are interested in something that will provide that "all-in-one" treatment that the author has intentionally avoided. This doesn't mean it's a bad book, but it means that it's the WRONG book for the autodidactic bookshopper who, having purchased, will find himself - as the Chinese would have it - "climbing a tree to find fish". If this isn't what you need, i. e. your instructor hasn't told you to buy it for his/her class, I'd point you elsewhere. But that doesn't mean it should be panned for what it is not. ### ⭐ Learn through translating from good excerpts of Thukyudides *by S***I on Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2020* Nothing to dislike. Excellent method of learning Ancient Greek from selected sections, by which you can learna lot and be ready to read/translate the literature. 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