THUCYDIDES AND THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, George Cawkwell

-About this book

Understanding the history of Athens in the all important years of the second half of the fifth century B.C. is largely dependent on the work of the historian Thucydides. Previous scholarship has tended to view Thucydides’ account as infallible.
This book challenges that received wisdom, advancing original and controversial views of Thucydides’ account of the Peloponnesian War; his misrepresentation of Alcibiades and Demosthenes; his relationship with Pericles; and his views on the Athenian Empire.
Cawkwell’s comprehensive analysis of Thucydides and his historical writings is persuasive, erudite and an immensely valuable addition to the scholarship and criticism of a rich and popular period of Greek history.

-CONTENTS

Preface  

List of abbreviations  

1- THUCYDIDES

2 -‘THE TRUEST EXPLANATION’

3- THUCYDIDES AND THE STRATEGY OF THE

PELOPONNESIAN WAR  

4- THUCYDIDES, PERICLES AND THE ‘RADICAL

DEMAGOGUES’  

5- THUCYDIDES, ALCIBIADES AND THE WEST  

6- THUCYDIDES AND THE EMPIRE  

Appendix 1 A note on the so-called ‘Financial Decrees’

of Callias, IG 13 52 (= ML 58)  

Appendix 2 The Megara Decrees of Plutarch, Pericles 30  

Appendix 3 Military service in the Athenian Empire  

Notes  

List of works referred to in Notes  

-caractéristiques

Date de parution :2 Oct. 1997

Publisher : Routledge

langue : anglais

N .de pages : 176

ISBN-10 : 0415164303

ISBN-13 : 978-0415164306

Dimensions : 13.97 x 1.42 x 21.59 cm