Thucydides: History Book II

P. J. Rhodes was Professor of Ancient History and is now Honorary Professor and Emeritus Professor at Durham University. He has edited and translated four volumes of Thucydides’ Histories in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series, as well as two volumes on the Athenian Constitution. His many other publications include Periclean Athens (Bloomsbury, 2018) and The Greek City States: A Source Boo’ (Cambridge University Press, 2007). He was President of the Classical Association from 2014–15 and was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal, University of Durham, in 2015.

• PrefaceReferencesMaps1. Greece & the Aegean2. Central & Southern GreeceIntroduction1. Thucudides & his history2. The Peloponnesian war3. Summary of Book II4. Abbreviations used in Apparatus CriticusBibliographyText and TranslationCommentaryAppendix: Athenian Population FiguresIndex

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