Thucydides History Book I

by P. J. Rhodes

Overview

With this edition of book I P. J. Rhodes provides the 'prequel' to his editions of Thucydides' books on the Archidamian War (II, III and IV. 1 - V. 24).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908343963
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	11/11/2014
Series:	Aris and Phillips Classical Texts
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

P. J. Rhodes was Professor of Ancient History and is now Honorary Professor and Emeritus Professor at the University of Durham. He wrote the Introduction and Notes for the Oxford World's Classics translation of Thucydides and is writing a book on Thucydides for Bloomsbury; and his other books include The Athenian Boule, A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia, A History of the Classical Greek World, 478–323 B.C., and in 2014 A Short History of Ancient Greece.

Table of Contents

Preface v

References vi

Map of Greece and the Aegean viii

Introduction

1 Thucydides and his History 1

2 The Pentecontaetia and the Peloponnesian War 24

3 Summary of Book I 35

4 Abbreviations used in Critical Apparatus 36

Bibliography 37

Θονκνδιδον Ξνγγραφης A / Thucydides: History I 45

Commentary 180

Index 281