Thucydides /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thucydides and his readers / Jeffrey S. Rusten -- A post-modernist Thucydides? / W. Robert Connor -- Thucydides 'as history' and 'as literature' / Kenneth J. Dover -- Intellectual affinities / Simon Hornblower -- Thucydides in the act of writing / Lowell Edmunds -- The figured stage : focalizing the initial narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides / Carolyn Dewald -- Thucydides' Persian wars / Tim Rood -- Thucydides' speeches / Chritopher Pelling -- Thucydides and the political self-portrait of the Athenians / Hermann Strasburger -- The portrait of Pericles in Thucydides / Joseph Vogt -- Diodotus' deceit (on Thucydides 3.42-8) / Bernd Manuwald -- Thucydides and sedition among words / Nicole Loraux -- Thucydides and the uneasy peace : a study in political incompetence / H.D. Westlake -- The humanitarian aspect of the Melian dialogue / Brian Bosworth -- Speeches and the course of events in books six and seven of Thucydides / Hans-Peter Stahl -- A highly complex battle-account : Syracuse / Jacqueline de Romilly -- Kt�ema es aei : aspects of the reception of Thucydides in the ancient world / Roberto Nicolai -- The peace of silence : Thucydides and the English Civil War / Jonathan Scott -- Thucydides The�or�etikos/Thucydides Hist�or : realist theory and the challenge of history / Josiah Ober.