Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the AtheniansThucydides' classic work is a foundational text in the history of Western political thought. His narrative of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC is now seen as a highly sophisticated study of the nature of political power itself: its exercise and effects, its agents and victims, and the arguments through which it is defended and deployed. It is therefore increasingly read as a text in politics, international relations and political theory, whose students will find in Thucydides many striking contemporary resonances. This edition seeks to present the author and the text in their proper historical context. The new translation is particularly sensitive to the risks of anachronism, and the notes and extensive reference material provide students with all the necessary historical, cultural and linguistic background they need to engage with the text on its own terms. |
Contents
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Battle of Sybota 433 | 30 |
The Walls of Athens | 64 |
Eighth year of the war 42423 IV 521 16 | 266 |
Ninth year of the war 42322 IV I 1735 | 307 |
Tenth year of the war 42221 V I24 | 320 |
Eleventh year of the war 4 2120 V 2539 | 338 |
Thirteenth year of the War 41918 V 5256 | 359 |
Fifteenth year of the war 4I7I6 V 8283 | 376 |
Seventeenth year of the war 41514 VI 893 | 391 |
Eighteenth year of the war 4I4I3 VI 94105 VII IIS | 445 |
First year of the war 4 3130 II I47 I | 89 |
Athenian and Peloponnesian leagues 431 | 95 |
Invasions of Attica 431 | 102 |
Second year of the war 4 3029 II 47 270 | 118 |
Third year of the war 42928 II 7IIo3 | 135 |
Operations in Acarnania and the northwest 429 | 142 |
Fourth year of the war 4 2827 III 125 | 162 |
Sitalces kingdom | 173 |
Fifth year of the war 4 2726 III 2688 | 177 |
Corcyra the region and toWn | 207 |
Sixth year of the war 4 2625 III 891 I 6 | 218 |
Campaigns of Demosthenes and Eurylochus in | 227 |
Seventh year of the war 4 2524 IV I5I | 236 |
Nineteenth year of the war 4I312 VII 1987 VIII I6 | 463 |
Twentieth year of the war 4 121 I VIII 760 | 515 |
Twentyfirst year of the war 4 1 IIo VIII 61109 unfinished | 547 |
64 | 549 |
variations from the OCT | 581 |
a seleetion of texts | 609 |
Background to the War I 23 4146 16 | 615 |
Synopsis 0fspeeehes | 624 |
Index ofnames 64 0 | 642 |
General index | 670 |
227 | 673 |
Common terms and phrases
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