The Cambridge companion to Thucydides

"Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted from 431 to 404 BC, and is a masterp...

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Other Authors: Low, Polly (Editor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom New York Port Melbourne New Delhi Singapore Cambridge University Press 2023
Series:Cambridge companions to literature
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DOI:10.1017/9781316227442
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Author Notes:edited by Polly A. Low, University of Durham
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction Polly A. Low
  • Establishing a new genre : Thucydides and non-historiographic memory Jonas Grethlein
  • Thucydidean self-presentation Tom Beasley
  • Thucydides' use of evidence and sources P.J. Rhodes
  • Rhetorical history : speeches in Thucydides Emily Greenwood
  • Prolegomena to the Peloponnesian War : Thucydides Book 1 Jeffrey S. Rusten
  • Time and foresight in Thucydides Rosaria Vignolo Munson
  • Labouring for truth in Thucydides Elizabeth K. Irwin
  • Thucydides and war Jason Crowley
  • Thucydides on empire and imperialism Polly A. Low
  • Ethnicity in Thucydides Maria Fragoulaki
  • Thucydides and leadership Sarah Brown Ferrario
  • Thucydides on democracy and the others Ryan K. Balot
  • Justice and morality in Thucydides Paul Woodruff
  • Thucydides in Greek and Roman historiography Luke V. Pitcher
  • Thucydides in Byzantium Scott Kennedy, Anthony Kaldellis
  • Thucydides in the Renaissance and Reformation / Kinch Hoekstra
  • Narrative of Thucydides and the nineteenth-century discipline of (ancient) history Alexandra Lianeri
  • 'What really happened' : varieties of realism in Thucydides' history Joel Alden Schlosser
  • Translating Thucydides Jeremy Mynott.