Thucydides
Published on 23. July 2009
Book
Hardback
532 pages
978-0-19-920620-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
791 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-920620-9 (9780199206209)
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Person
Jeffrey S. Rusten is Professor of Classics at Cornell University.
Content
INTRODUCTORY ; 1. Thucydides and his Readers ; 2. A Post-modernist Thucydides? ; 3. Thucydides 'as History' and 'as Literature' ; 4. Intellectual Affinities ; BOOK I ; 5. Thucydides in the Act of Writing ; 6. The Figured Stage: Focalizing the Initial Narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides ; 7. Thucydides' Persian Wars ; 8. Thucydides' Speeches ; BOOK II AND PERICLES ; 9. Thucydides and the Political Self-Portrait of the Athenians ; 10. The Portrait of Pericles in Thucydides ; BOOK III ; 11. Diodotus' Deceit (On Thucydides 3.42-8) ; 12. Thucydides and Sedition Among Words ; BOOK V ; 13. Thucydides and the Uneasy Peace: A Study in Political Incompetence ; 14. The Humanitarian Aspect of the Melian Dialogue ; BOOKS VI-VII ; 15. Speeches and the Course of Events in Books Six and Seven of Thucydides ; 16. A Complex Battle-Account: Syracuse ; RECEPTION (ANCIENT, MODERN, AND CONTEMPORARY) ; 17. Ktema es aei: Aspects of the Reception of Thucydides in the Ancient World ; 18. The Peace of Silence: Thucydides and the English Civil War ; 19. Thucydides Theoretikos/Thucydides Histor: Realist Theory and the Challenge of History