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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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
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2023.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.