Thucydides

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ISBN: 9780199206193 | 0199206198
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Copyright: 9/28/2009

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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

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Abbreviations	p. x
Introductory
Thucydides and his Readers	p. 1
A Post-Modernist Thucydides?	p. 29
Thucydides 'as History' and 'as Literature'	p. 44
Intellectual Affinities	p. 60

Thucydides in me Act of Writing	p. 91
The Figured Stage: Focalizing the Initial Narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides	p. 114
Thucydides' Persian Wars	p. 148
Thucydides' Speeches	p. 176
And Pericles
Thucydides and the Political Self-Portrait of the Athenians	p. 191
The Portrait of Pericles in Thucydides	p. 220

Diodotus' Deceit (On Thucydides 3.42-8)	p. 241
Thucydides and Sedition Among Words	p. 261

Thucydides and the Uneasy Peace: A Study in Political Incompetence	p. 295
The Humanitarian Aspect of the Melian Dialogue	p. 312

Speeches and the Course of Events in Books Six and Seven of Thucydides	p. 341
A Highly Complex Battle-Account: Syracuse	p. 359
Reception (Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary)
Ktêma es aei: Aspects of the Reception of Thucydides in the Ancient World	p. 381
The Peace of Silence: Thucydides and the English Civil War	p. 405
Thucydides Theôrêtikos/Thucydides Histôr: Realist Theory and the Challenge of History	p. 434
Select Bibliography of Thuchydidean Studies	p. 479
Acknowledgments	p. 514
Index of Authors in the Bibliography	p. 517
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