Thucydides

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

• INTRODUCTORY ; 1. Thucydides and his Readers ; 2. A Post-modernist Thucydides? ; 3. Thucydides 'as History' and 'as Literature' ; 4. Intellectual Affinities ; BOOK I ; 5. Thucydides in the Act of Writing ; 6. The Figured Stage: Focalizing the Initial Narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides ; 7. Thucydides' Persian Wars ; 8. Thucydides' Speeches ; BOOK II AND PERICLES ; 9. Thucydides and the Political Self-Portrait of the Athenians ; 10. The Portrait of Pericles in Thucydides ; BOOK III ; 11. Diodotus' Deceit (On Thucydides 3.42-8) ; 12. Thucydides and Sedition Among Words ; BOOK V ; 13. Thucydides and the Uneasy Peace: A Study in Political Incompetence ; 14. The Humanitarian Aspect of the Melian Dialogue ; BOOKS VI-VII ; 15. Speeches and the Course of Events in Books Six and Seven of Thucydides ; 16. A Complex Battle-Account: Syracuse ; RECEPTION (ANCIENT, MODERN, AND CONTEMPORARY) ; 17. Ktema es aei: Aspects of the Reception of Thucydides in the Ancient World ; 18. The Peace of Silence: Thucydides and the English Civil War ; 19. Thucydides Theoretikos/Thucydides Histor: Realist Theory and the Challenge of History

A first-rate collection that well serves both those encountering Thucydides for the first time and those who know (or think they know) him well.