The Landmark Thucydides

The Landmark Thucydides
Author: Thucydides
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 760
Release: 2008-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1416590870

Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.

Redeeming Thucydides' Book VIII

Redeeming Thucydides' Book VIII
Author: Vasileios Liotsakis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2017-06-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110532093

Since antiquity, Book 8 of Thucydides’ History has been considered an unpolished draft which lacks revision. Even those who admit that the book has some elements of internal coherence believe that Thucydides, if death had not prevented him, would have improved many chapters or even the whole structure of the book. Consequently, while the first seven books of the History have been well examined through the last two centuries, the narrative plan of Book 8 remains an obscure subject, as we do not possess an extensive and detailed presentation of its whole narrative design. Vasileios Liotsakis tries to satisfy this central desideratum of the Thucydidean scholarship by offering a thorough description of the compositional plan, which, in his opinion, Thucydides put into effect in the last 109 chapters of his work. His study elaborates on the structural parts of the book, their details, and the various techniques through which Thucydides composed his narration in order to reach the internal cohesion of these chapters as well as their close connection to the rest of the History. Liotsakis offers us an original approach not only of Book 8 but also of the whole work, since his observations reshape our overall view of the History.

Thucydides and Political Order

Thucydides and Political Order
Author: Christian R. Thauer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137527757

This book, the second of two monographs, consists of contributions by world-class scholars on Thucydides' legacy to the political process. It also includes a careful examination of the usefulness and efficacy of the interdisciplinary approach to political order in the ancient world and proposes new paths for the future study.

A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume III: Books 5.25-8.109

A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume III: Books 5.25-8.109
Author: Simon Hornblower
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 1128
Release: 2008-11-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 019927648X

The third and final volume of a commentary on the history of the first 20 years of the Peloponnesian War written by the great fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides. Volume III covers the years 421-411 BC (Books 5.25 to 8.109). All Greek is translated, and there is a thematic Introduction.