Thucydides: History IV 1-V 24

by M.M. J. Wilcox (Contribution by), P. J. Rhodes (Commentaries by), P. J. Rhodes (Translator)

Overview

Following on from his first two books, Rhodes completes his edition of Thucydides' books on the Archidamian War, providing an Introduction Thucydides' history and on the Peloponnesian War, Greek text with selective critical apparatus and facing translation, and a commentary which should be useful both to specialists and to readers with little ...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780856687020
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	06/28/2007
Series:	Classical Texts Series , #4
Pages:	365
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.90(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
References
Maps: 1. Greece & the Aegean, 2. Lesbos & Ionia, 3. Corcyra, 4. Sicily & the Toe of Italy, 5. Amphilochia
Introduction: 1. Thucydides & his history, 2. The Peloponnesian war, 3. Summary of Book III, 4. Abbreviations used in Critical Apparatus
Bibliography
Parallel Greek Text and English Translation
Commentary
Index