Thucydides

by Jeffrey S. Rusten (Editor)

Overview

Thucydides' account of the war between Athens and Sparta is the first great work of political history and still a fundamental text for political science and international relations today; it is also a compelling story, full of vivid characters and tragic miscalculations. This collection of essays is designed to accompany, instruct, and stimulate readers of Thucydides by making accessible some classic and influential studies that are frequently cited but not always easy to access. (One-third of the essays appear here in English for the first time.) All Greek is translated, and an introductory chapter surveys the chronology and thematic controversies among Thucydides' readings from antiquity to the present.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199206209
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/28/2009
Series:	Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
Pages:	532
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Jeffrey S. Rusten is Professor of Classics at Cornell University.

Table of Contents

Introductory1. Thucydides and his Readers, Jeffrey S. Rusten2. A Post-modernist Thucydides?, W. Robert Connor3. Thucydides 'as History' and 'as Literature', Kenneth J. Dover4. Intellectual Affinities, Simon HornblowerBook I5. Thucydides in the Act of Writing, Lowell Edmunds6. The Figured Stage: Focalizing the Initial Narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides, Carolyn DeWald7. Thucydides' Persian Wars, Tim Rood8. Thucydides' Speeches, Christopher B. PellingBook II and Pericles9. Thucydides and the Political Self-Portrait of the Athenians, Hermann Strasburger10. The Portrait of Pericles in Thucydides, Joseph VogtBook III11. Diodotus' Deceit (On Thucydides 3.42-8), Bernd Manuwald12. Thucydides and Sedition Among Words, Nicole LorauxBook V13. Thucydides and the Uneasy Peace: A Study in Political Incompetence, H. D. Westlake14. The Humanitarian Aspect of the Melian Dialogue, Brian BosworthBooks VI-VII15. Speeches and the Course of Events in Books Six and Seven of Thucydides, Hans-Peter Stahl16. A Complex Battle-Account: Syracuse, Jacqueline de RomillyReception (Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary)17. Ktêma es aei: Aspects of the Reception of Thucydides in the Ancient World, Roberto Nicolai18. The Peace of Silence: Thucydides and the English Civil War, Jonathan Scott19. Thucydides Theôrêtikos/Thucydides Histôr: Realist Theory and the Challenge of History, Josiah Ober

Editorial Reviews

"A first-rate collection that well serves both those encountering Thucydides for the first time and those who know (or think they know) him well." —Classical World

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