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Thucydides Book I: A Students' Grammatical Commentary Paperback – September 26, 2003

by Howard Don Cameron (Author)
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The first book of Thucydides is a compact masterpiece. Here he sets up the conditions that led to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War in 431 B.C. With great economy, he analyzes the origins of large-scale wars; integrates a sketch of the historical background into the larger thematic threads of his narrative; presents a brief statement of his methods and goals; outlines a hierarchy of causation; develops a theory of character and human nature; and presents a theory of leadership, chance, and foresight, all within a narrative structure that perfectly focuses these elements.
Because Book I is not primarily historical narrative, it inevitably proves difficult for inexperienced readers. Despite the convolutions and density of Thucydides' prose style, no authoritative commentary has been published since the early days of the last century. H. D. Cameron is a renowned expert in Greek and comparative grammar and has written this handbook for all levels of classical students and scholars. His commentary authoritatively accounts for the last one hundred years of evolving grammatical and linguistic theory as they apply to the seminal work of Thucydides.
H. D. Cameron is Professor of Greek and Latin and Director of the Great Books Program at the University of Michigan.
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    September 26, 2003
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  6. ISBN-10
    0472068474
  7. ISBN-13
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Michigan Press; First Edition (September 26, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 136 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0472068474
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0472068470
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding!
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I agree with the wholehearted praise bestowed on this book by reviewer JZ and the reviewer labelled “Amazon Customer.” I disagree with JZ in that I think that it is perfectly reasonable to assume that someone reading Thucydides owns Smyth’s Greek Grammar. As for reviewer HoAndron, I am hallway through Cameron, and I have not yet encountered the sentence he quotes, or any other like it.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Yikes!
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You will be sailing into heavy obscure grammatical phraseology. Here is an example:
"This relative incorporates its antecedent (Sm. sec.2536); i.e., there is no antecedent present in the main clause, but if it were there explicitly, it would have been genitive plural, a partitive genitive after the superlative adjective. So the genitive plural seem to serve as the object of the verb "ismen". If this construction were artificially spread out, it would be...etc."

If you understand this, buy the book. Otherwise, it would seem to me to confuse matters rather than clear them up.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent commentary
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 20, 2019
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Extremely helpful for someone trying to translate Thucydides I for the first time. Grammar, syntax and the organisation of complex sentences, of which there are a few in Thucydides, clearly explained.
I wish similar commentaries for the rest of Thucydides' books existed.
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