This page was created in 2005 last modified on 16 December 2019.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:45:34 Boxid IA157117 Boxid_2 CH123216 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY Donor Walbank, "Speeches in Greek historians", in: Selected Papers (Cambridge 1985), 242-261. Strasburger, "Thukydides und die politische Selbstdarstellung der Athener", in: Studien zur Alten Geschichte II (Hildesheim/New York 1982), 676-708.
Rood, Thucydides: narrative and explanation (Oxford 1998) Price, Thucydides and internal war (Cambridge 2001) Cogan, "Mytilene, Plataea, and Corcyra: ideology and policy in Thucydides, Book Three" in Phoenix 35 (1981), 1-21 Cartwright, A historical commentary on Thucydides: a companion to Rex Warner's Penguin translation (Ann Arbor 1997) Hornblower, A commentary on Thucydides (Oxford 1992- ) Dover, A historical commentary on Thucydides, five volumes (Oxford 1945-1981). There is an ancient biography of Thucydides by one Marcellinus, but it is essentially unreliable, although the detail that his works were published by his daughter is so odd that it can hardly be invented.
A continuation of Thucydides' History was written by Xenophon, and is called Hellenica. It breaks off in 411, although Thucydides lived on to see the final defeat of Athens in 404, and appears to have been aware of several events that happened after 400. Still, his History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the greatest texts from Antiquity. His judgment of people like Pericles, Cleon and Nicias is, according to modern historians, hardly accurate, and the last word has not yet been spoken about his dismissal of the Megarian Decree as a mere pretext for war. For example, his account of the plague at Athens in 429 slowly develops into a shocking story about moral corruption.
And indeed, his description of the changing use of language in times of war has become a classic.Īlthough he does his best to remain objective, Thucydides cannot always hide his personal judgment. Because of the absence of romantic digressions, the History of the Peloponnesian War is less easy to read than the Histories of Herodotus, but Thucydides offers an in-depth analysis of the mechanisms of war, which - he hoped - would be useful in all ages. Historian Thucydidesīeing exiled because he had during the Archidamian War been unable to defend Amphipolis against the Spartan commander Brasidas, the former Athenian general Thucydides wrote the history of the wars fought between Athens and Sparta in the years 431-404.
Thucydides (c.460-c.395): Athenian general and historian, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War.
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