Contents
Acknowledgments
Part One. Introduction
Chapter 1. In Dialogue with Thucydides
Chapter 2. The Reader¿s Task
Part Two. Participatory, Punctuated, and Retrospective History: Corcyra, Plataea, and Melos
Chapter 3. The Corcyrean Conflict (1.24¿55)
Chapter 4. Punctuated History: The Case of Plataea
Chapter 5. Historical Lessons in the Melian Episode
Part 3. Argument and Reverberation: Comparison, Maxim, and Metaphor
Chapter 6. The Comparison of Cities and Individuals
Chapter 7. Maxims and Assimilation in the Mytilenian Debate
Chapter 8. Athens the Tyrant-City and the Function of
Political Metaphor
Part Four. Biography and Reception
Chapter 9. Thucydides¿ Life and Work
Chapter 10. Ancient and Modern Audiences
Bibliography
Index