The Cambridge companion to Thucydides
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The Cambridge companion to Thucydides
（Cambridge companions to literature）
Cambridge University Press, 2023
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Available at 6 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-363) and indexes
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Polly Low
- Part I. Context and Methods: 2. Establishing a new genre: Thucydides and non-historiographic memory Jonas Grethlein
- 3. Thucydidean self-presentation Thomas Beasley
- 4. Thucydides' use of evidence and sources P. J. Rhodes
- 5. Rhetorical history: speeches in Thucydides Emily Greenwood
- 6. Prolegomena to the Peloponnesian War: Thucydides Book 1 Jeffrey Rusten
- 7. Time and foresight in Thucydides Rosaria Vignolo Munson
- 8. Labouring for truth in Thucydides Elizabeth Irwin
- Part II. Themes and Content: 9. Thucydides and war Jason Crowley
- 10. Thucydides on empire and imperialism Polly Low
- 11. Ethnicity in Thucydides Maria Fragoulaki
- 12. Thucydides and leadership Sarah Brown Ferrario
- 13. Thucydides on democracy and the others Ryan Balot
- 14. Justice and morality in Thucydides Paul Woodruff
- Part III. After Thucydides: 15. Thucydides in Greek and Roman historiography Luke Pitcher
- 16. Thucydides in Byzantium Scott Kennedy and Anthony Kaldellis
- 17. Thucydides in the Renaissance and Reformation Kinch Hoekstra
- 18. Narrative of Thucydides and the nineteenth-century discipline of ancient history Alexandra Lianeri
- 19. 'What really happened': varieties of realism in Thucydides' History Joel Alden Schloesser
- 20. Translating Thucydides Jeremy Mynott.
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