Thucydides the Athenian

by: Marinatos, N. Pitt, R.K.

This volume of proceedings stems from a conference on Thucydides hosted by College Year in Athens in summer 2018 and organised by the editors. The series of papers discusses Pericles and Thucydides in their Athenian Contexts, and explores the them of personalities and individuals both in the History itself and in scholarship on Thucydides

Walls of Wood and Walls of Stone: Themistocles as Architect of Empire/ S.N. Jaffe -- Pericles: the Direct and Indirect fifth-century Epigraphical Evidence/ Angelos P. Matthaiou -- Party Politics: Thucydides, the hetaireia, and the Cup of Pericles/ A. Sebastian Anderson -- Revisiting the Pylos Episode and Thucydides' 'Bias' against Keon/ A.G. Nikolaidis -- Games of Chess: Thucydides and Brasidas, Nicias and Gylippus/ Nanno Marinatos -- The Eclipse of the Moon, the General and the manteis/ Dimitris J. Kyrtatas -- Naming Strategies in the Sicilian Expedition: Characters under the Spotlight and Actors in the Wings/ Robert K. Pitt -- Lichas: a Mini-Biography/ Paul Cartledge -- Body Language and Personal Character in Thucydides/ T.F. Scanlon -- New Evidence about Building on the Acropolis in Light of Thucydides' History -- Thucydides and the Causes of the Peloponnesian War in nineteenth-century Historiography: the Case of Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos versus George Grote and Ernst Curtius -- Enoch Powell: Trauma and Thucydides. A Perspective from the 1930s/ Benjamin Early.

Thucydides the Athenian

by: Marinatos, N. Pitt, R.K.

• ISBN-13: 9789609890816 / 978-960-98908-1-6
• ISBN-03: 9609890814 / 960-98908-1-4
• , Athens, 2022