Thucydides: History Book I

Peter J. Rhodes

ISBN 10: 1908343966 / ISBN 13: 9781908343963

Published by Liverpool University Press, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thucydides: History Book I
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908343966
• ISBN 13: 9781908343963
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 440 grams

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Synopsis

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). As before, he provides an Introduction on Thucydides’ history and on the Peloponnesian War, a Greek text with selective critical apparatus and facing translation, and a commentary which will be useful both to specialists and to readers with little or no Greek, and which assumes no previous acquaintance with Thucydides. Matters of text and language are discussed where necessary,
but the emphasis is on Thucydides’ subject-matter ― the Peloponnesian War presented as the greatest war in Greek history, and accounts of the events directly leading to the war and of the growth of Athenian power since the Persian Wars which explain why this war between the two great powers of fifth-century Greece was fought ― and on the way in which he has treated it.

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 has edited and translated four volumes of Thucydides’ Histories in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series, as well as two Greek texts on the Athenian Constitution. His many other publications include Periclean Athens (Bloomsbury, 2018) and The Greek City States: A Source Book (Cambridge University Press, 2007). He was President of the Classical Association from 2014 to 2015 and was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal, University of Durham, in 2015.