Thucydides: Book I: Bk.1 (BCP Greek Texts)

This edition, like its companions Thucydides ll and IV, is intended primarily for undergraduates and candidates taking A-level examinations. It will also be useful to students who are approaching a book of Thucydides for the first time, or studying the Peloponnesian War from a more general, historical perspective. The text and notes are those of B.C. Marchant, originally published in 1905. A recent introduction by Thomas Wiedemann takes account of the questions which students today will want to ask about Thucydides' history, and of the present state of research; it also covers the context and aims of the work and giving essential background to the events described.. There is also a list of essential dates and a recent bibliography (1993), in which a primary criterion for inclusion bas been accessibility to the non-academic English reader.

Thucydides (c. 460–c.395 BC) was a Greek historian and Athenian general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens. Thucydides has been called the father of "scientific history", and of political realism.

Thomas Wiedemann was Professor of Latin at the University of Nottingham, UK. His publications include Emperors and Gladiators (1995), and, as editor, Cicero and the End of the Roman Republic (1998), and History of the Peloponnesian War: Books I-II (1998, both available from Bloomsbury).

E.C. Marchant was editor of Xenophon, Books I, II, III, V; Opuscula: Book V; and Thucydides, Books I, II, III, VI, VII; and co-author of Latin Prose Composition, Latin Grammar, and Bell's Latin Course, in three parts.