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new history of the Peloponnesian War

Matthew King · 08 Aug 2006, 16:07 · from 2006-August.txt.gz

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From: automatthew at gmail.com (Matthew King)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 11:07:03 -0500
Subject: (urth) new history of the Peloponnesian War
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The author of this review (Victor Davis Hanson) wrote a chapter about  
the naval battle of Salamis in his book Carnage and Culture.    
Salamis is the name  "translated" by Latro as meaning Peace.

I had read Carnage and Culture shortly before I discovered Wolfe, and  
I was thrilled when I recognized what Latro was writing about.

Another great resource for historical background is the Teaching  
Company's audio lectures on Herodotos.

On Aug 8, 2006, at 10:18 AM, Russell Wodell wrote:

> This might be helpful for those (like me) still struggling to  
> understand the historical background of the Latro series.
>
> http://www.claremont.org/writings/crb/summer2006/kopff.html
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