Description Peter Pouncey presents for us and for the gods the mind of Thucydides as an historian and writer.
Merwin wrote that Pouncey\'s novel, Rules for Old Men, "confronts its primal subject with a lucidity and plainness that appears to be descended from the historians and poets we have labeled classical.".
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Sometime dean of Columbia College, he served as president of Amherst College for ten years.
He spent his childhood mostly in English boarding schools, then Oxford University and training for the Jesuit priesthood.
About the Author PETER Pouncey was born in Tsingtao, China.
Pouncey\'s Thucydides won the Lionel Trilling Prize.
He nails down for us Thucydides\' lasting lessons.
Pouncey gives us an amazing reading of Thucydides\' amazing reading of the confused experience of wartime events.
Description Peter Pouncey presents for us and for the gods the mind of Thucydides as an historian and writer
