The Cambridge companion to Thucydides Low, Polly editor. text bibliography History. enk 2023 2023 monographic eng print xvii, 382 pages ; 24 cm. "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 masterpiece of narrative art and of political analysis. The twenty chapters in this Companion offer a wide range of perspectives on different aspects of the text, its interpretation and its significance. The nature of the text is explored in detail, and problems of Thucydides' historical and literary methodology are examined. Other chapters analyse the ways in which Thucydides' work illuminates, or complicates, our understanding of key historical questions for this period, above all those relating to the nature and conduct of war, politics, and empire. Finally, the book also explores the continuing legacy of Thucydides, from antiquity to the present day"-- Introduction / Polly A. Low -- Part I. Context and methods. 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 -- Part II. Themes and content. 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 -- Part III. After Thucydides. 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. edited by Polly A. Low, Durham University. Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-363) and indexes. e-gr--- Thucydides Thucydides Themes, motives Thucydides Influence Thucydides Greece History Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C Historiography Historiography Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Themes, motives Greece 431-404 B.C. fast DF229.T6 C345 2023 938/.05 Cambridge companion to Thucydides Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 (DLC) 2022030710 Cambridge companions to literature 9781107107052 1107107059 9781107514607 1107514606 9781316227442 2022030709 pda,print ICU/DLC 220701 20250318215009.2 in00004729698 eng