READING THUCYDIDES

by JAMES V MORRISON

The Ohio State University Press, 2006

Cloth: 978-0-8142-1035-2 | eISBN: 978-0-8142-7542-9 (individual) | eISBN: 978-0-8142-7244-2 (institutional)

Library of Congress Classification DF229.T6M67 2006

Dewey Decimal Classification 938.05072

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

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