Thucydides
By: edited by Jeffrey S. Rusten.
Contributors: Rusten, Jeffrey S.
Series: Oxford readings in classical studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 519
ISBN-13: 9780199206209; 9780199206193
Subjects: Thucydides; Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thucydides and his readers / Jeffrey S. Rusten; title: A post-modernist Thucydides? / W. Robert Connor; title: Thucydides 'as history' and 'as literature' / Kenneth J. Dover; title: Intellectual affinities / Simon Hornblower; title: Thucydides in the act of writing / Lowell Edmunds; title: The figured stage : focalizing the initial narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides / Carolyn Dewald; title: Thucydides' Persian wars / Tim Rood; title: Thucydides' speeches / Chritopher Pelling; title: Thucydides and the political self-portrait of the Athenians / Hermann Strasburger; title: The portrait of Pericles in Thucydides / Joseph Vogt; title: Diodotus' deceit (on Thucydides 3.42-8) / Bernd Manuwald; title: Thucydides and sedition among words / Nicole Loraux; title: Thucydides and the uneasy peace : a study in political incompetence / H.D. Westlake; title: The humanitarian aspect of the Melian dialogue / Brian Bosworth; title: Speeches and the course of events in books six and seven of Thucydides / Hans-Peter Stahl; title: A highly complex battle-account : Syracuse / Jacqueline de Romilly; title: Ktêma es aei : aspects of the reception of Thucydides in the ancient world / Roberto Nicolai; title: The peace of silence : Thucydides and the English Civil War / Jonathan Scott; title: Thucydides Theôrêtikos/Thucydides Histôr : realist theory and the challenge of history / Josiah Ober.