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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey S. Rusten is Professor of Classics at Cornell University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introductory 1: Jeffrey S. Rusten: Thucydides and his Readers 2: W. Robert Connor: A Post-modernist Thucydides? 3: Kenneth J. Dover: Thucydides 'as History' and 'as Literature' 4: Simon Hornblower: Intellectual Affinities Book I 5: Lowell Edmunds: Thucydides in the Act of Writing 6: Carolyn DeWald: The Figured Stage: Focalizing the Initial Narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides 7: Tim Rood: Thucydides' Persian Wars 8: Christopher B. Pelling: Thucydides' Speeches Book II and Pericles 9: Hermann Strasburger: Thucydides and the Political Self-Portrait of the Athenians 10: Joseph Vogt: The Portrait of Pericles in Thucydides Book III 11: Bernd Manuwald: Diodotus' Deceit (On Thucydides 3.42-8) 12: Nicole Loraux: Thucydides and Sedition Among Words Book V 13: H. D. Westlake: Thucydides and the Uneasy Peace: A Study in Political Incompetence 14: Brian Bosworth: The Humanitarian Aspect of the Melian Dialogue Books VI-VII 15: Hans-Peter Stahl: Speeches and the Course of Events in Books Six and Seven of Thucydides 16: Jacqueline de Romilly: A Complex Battle-Account: Syracuse Reception (Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary) 17: Roberto Nicolai: Ktêma es aei: Aspects of the Reception of Thucydides in the Ancient World 18: Jonathan Scott: The Peace of Silence: Thucydides and the English Civil War 19: Josiah Ober: Thucydides Theôrêtikos/Thucydides Histôr: Realist Theory and the Challenge of History ...
