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 miscalculations. This collection of essays is designed to accompany, instruct, and stimulate readers of Thucydides by making accessible some classic and influential studies that are frequently cited but not always easy to access. (One-third of the essays appear here in English for the first time.) All Greek is translated, and an introductory chapter surveys the chronology and thematic controversies among Thucydides' readings from antiquity to the present.
Introductory
1. Thucydides and his Readers, Jeffrey S. Rusten
2. A Post-modernist Thucydides?, W. Robert Connor
3. Thucydides 'as History' and 'as Literature', Kenneth J. Dover
4. Intellectual Affinities, Simon Hornblower
Book I
5. Thucydides in the Act of Writing, Lowell Edmunds
6. The Figured Stage: Focalizing the Initial Narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides, Carolyn DeWald
7. Thucydides' Persian Wars, Tim Rood
8. Thucydides' Speeches, Christopher B. Pelling
Book II and Pericles
9. Thucydides and the Political Self-Portrait of the Athenians, Hermann Strasburger
10. The Portrait of Pericles in Thucydides, Joseph Vogt
Book III
11. Diodotus' Deceit (On Thucydides 3.42-8), Bernd Manuwald
12. Thucydides and Sedition Among Words, Nicole Loraux
Book V
13. Thucydides and the Uneasy Peace: A Study in Political Incompetence, H. D. Westlake
14. The Humanitarian Aspect of the Melian Dialogue, Brian Bosworth
Books VI-VII
15. Speeches and the Course of Events in Books Six and Seven of Thucydides, Hans-Peter Stahl
16. A Complex Battle-Account: Syracuse, Jacqueline de Romilly
Reception (Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary)
17. Ktêma es aei: Aspects of the Reception of Thucydides in the Ancient World, Roberto Nicolai
18. The Peace of Silence: Thucydides and the English Civil War, Jonathan Scott
19. Thucydides Theôrêtikos/Thucydides Histôr: Realist Theory and the Challenge of History, Josiah Ober