Thucydides

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

Jeffrey S. Rusten is Professor of Classics at Cornell University.

Introductory1. Thucydides and his Readers, Jeffrey S. Rusten2. A Post-modernist Thucydides?, W. Robert Connor3. Thucydides 'as History' and 'as Literature', Kenneth J. Dover4. Intellectual Affinities, Simon HornblowerBook I5. Thucydides in the Act of Writing, Lowell Edmunds6. The Figured Stage: Focalizing the Initial Narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides, Carolyn DeWald7. Thucydides' Persian Wars, Tim Rood8. Thucydides' Speeches, Christopher B. PellingBook II and Pericles9. Thucydides and the Political Self-Portrait of the Athenians, Hermann Strasburger10. The Portrait of Pericles in Thucydides, Joseph VogtBook III11. Diodotus' Deceit (On Thucydides 3.42-8), Bernd Manuwald12. Thucydides and Sedition Among Words, Nicole LorauxBook V13. Thucydides and the Uneasy Peace: A Study in Political Incompetence, H. D. Westlake14. The Humanitarian Aspect of the Melian Dialogue, Brian BosworthBooks VI-VII15. Speeches and the Course of Events in Books Six and Seven of Thucydides, Hans-Peter Stahl16. A Complex Battle-Account: Syracuse, Jacqueline de RomillyReception (Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary)17. Ktêma es aei: Aspects of the Reception of Thucydides in the Ancient World, Roberto Nicolai18. The Peace of Silence: Thucydides and the English Civil War, Jonathan Scott19. Thucydides Theôrêtikos/Thucydides Histôr: Realist Theory and the Challenge of History, Josiah Ober