Sara Forsdyke is Professor of Classical Studies and History, University of Michigan.Edith Foster is Senior Research Associate, Case Western University and Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Strasbourg.Ryan Balot is Professor of Political Science and Classics, University of Toronto.

Overall, the volume is a useful survey of contemporary Thucydidean scholarship ... For libraries of universities offering courses in classics and ancient history. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

• Introduction Section I: Thucydides as Historian01 Thucydides' Historical MethodSara Forsdyke02 Thucydides on Early Greek HistoryHans van Wees03 The PentecontaetiaLisa Kallet04 Military Malaise and a Hobbled Hegemony: Sparta and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian League in Thucydides' HistoryEllen Millender05 Thucydides on the Athenian Empire and Interstate RelationsPolly Low06 Thucydides on the Causes and Outbreak of the Peloponnesian WarEric Robinson07 Thucydides on the First Ten Years of War (Archidamian War)Peter Hunt08 Mantinea, Decelea and the Interwar Years (421-413 BCE)Cinzia Bearzot09 Thucydides on the Sicilian ExpeditionEmily Greenwood10 Thucydides on the Four Hundred and the Fall of AthensAndrew Wolpert Section II: Thucydidean Historiography11. Writing History Implicitly through Refined StructuringHunter Rawlings12. Scale Matters: Compression, Expansion, and Vividness in ThucydidesW. R. Connor13. The Tree, the Funnel, and the Diptych: Some Patterns in Thucydides' Longest SentencesJeffrey Rusten14. Authorial Comments in ThucydidesMatthieu de Bakker15. Thucydides and Myth: A Complex Relation to Past and PresentRosaria Munson16. SpeechesAntonis Tsakmakis17. Characterization of Individuals in Thucydides' HistoryPhilip Stadter18. Campaign and Battle Narratives in ThucydidesEdith Foster Section III: Thucydides and Political Theory19. Was Thucydides a Political Philosopher?Ryan Balot20. Kinêsis, Navies and the Power Trap in ThucydidesArlene Saxonhouse21. Thucydides on Nature and Human ConductClifford Orwin22. Thucydides and the Politics of NecessityKinch Hoekstra and Mark Fisher23. The Regime (Politeia) in ThucydidesSeth Jaffe24. STASIS in the War NarrativeMichael Palmer25. Religion, Politics, and PietyPaul Rahe26. Thucydides on the Political PassionsVictoria Wohl27. Leaders and Leadership in Thucydides' HistoryMary P. Nichols28. Thucydides and CrowdsJohn Zumbrunnen29. Thucydides, International Law, and International AnarchyArthur Eckstein30. Xenophon as a Socratic Reader of ThucydidesPaul Ludwig31. Political Philosophy in an Unstable World: Comparing Thucydides and Plato on the Possibilities of PoliticsGerald Mara Section IV: Contexts and Ancient Reception of Thucydidean Historiography32. Thucydides' Predecessors and Contemporaries in Historical Poetry and ProseLeone Porciani33. Thucydides and His Intellectual MilieuRosalind Thomas34. Thucydides, Epic, and TragedyTobias Joho35. Thucydides and Attic ComedyJeffrey Henderson36. Thucydides and his ContinuatorsVivienne Gray37. History, Rhetoric, and Truth: Dionysius of Halicarnassus on ThucydidesCasper de Jonge38. Polybius and SallustNicolas Wiater39. Writing with Posterity in Mind: Thucydides and Tacitus on SecessionCynthia Damon40. Thucydides, Procopius, and the Historians of the Later Roman EmpireConor Whately

Sara Forsdyke is Professor of Classical Studies and History, University of Michigan.Edith Foster is Senior Research Associate, Case Western University and Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Strasbourg.Ryan Balot is Professor of Political Science and Classics, University of Toronto.

Overall, the volume is a useful survey of contemporary Thucydidean scholarship ... For libraries of universities offering courses in classics and ancient history. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

• Introduction Section I: Thucydides as Historian01 Thucydides' Historical MethodSara Forsdyke02 Thucydides on Early Greek HistoryHans van Wees03 The PentecontaetiaLisa Kallet04 Military Malaise and a Hobbled Hegemony: Sparta and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian League in Thucydides' HistoryEllen Millender05 Thucydides on the Athenian Empire and Interstate RelationsPolly Low06 Thucydides on the Causes and Outbreak of the Peloponnesian WarEric Robinson07 Thucydides on the First Ten Years of War (Archidamian War)Peter Hunt08 Mantinea, Decelea and the Interwar Years (421-413 BCE)Cinzia Bearzot09 Thucydides on the Sicilian ExpeditionEmily Greenwood10 Thucydides on the Four Hundred and the Fall of AthensAndrew Wolpert Section II: Thucydidean Historiography11. Writing History Implicitly through Refined StructuringHunter Rawlings12. Scale Matters: Compression, Expansion, and Vividness in ThucydidesW. R. Connor13. The Tree, the Funnel, and the Diptych: Some Patterns in Thucydides' Longest SentencesJeffrey Rusten14. Authorial Comments in ThucydidesMatthieu de Bakker15. Thucydides and Myth: A Complex Relation to Past and PresentRosaria Munson16. SpeechesAntonis Tsakmakis17. Characterization of Individuals in Thucydides' HistoryPhilip Stadter18. Campaign and Battle Narratives in ThucydidesEdith Foster Section III: Thucydides and Political Theory19. Was Thucydides a Political Philosopher?Ryan Balot20. Kinêsis, Navies and the Power Trap in ThucydidesArlene Saxonhouse21. Thucydides on Nature and Human ConductClifford Orwin22. Thucydides and the Politics of NecessityKinch Hoekstra and Mark Fisher23. The Regime (Politeia) in ThucydidesSeth Jaffe24. STASIS in the War NarrativeMichael Palmer25. Religion, Politics, and PietyPaul Rahe26. Thucydides on the Political PassionsVictoria Wohl27. Leaders and Leadership in Thucydides' HistoryMary P. Nichols28. Thucydides and CrowdsJohn Zumbrunnen29. Thucydides, International Law, and International AnarchyArthur Eckstein30. Xenophon as a Socratic Reader of ThucydidesPaul Ludwig31. Political Philosophy in an Unstable World: Comparing Thucydides and Plato on the Possibilities of PoliticsGerald Mara Section IV: Contexts and Ancient Reception of Thucydidean Historiography32. Thucydides' Predecessors and Contemporaries in Historical Poetry and ProseLeone Porciani33. Thucydides and His Intellectual MilieuRosalind Thomas34. Thucydides, Epic, and TragedyTobias Joho35. Thucydides and Attic ComedyJeffrey Henderson36. Thucydides and his ContinuatorsVivienne Gray37. History, Rhetoric, and Truth: Dionysius of Halicarnassus on ThucydidesCasper de Jonge38. Polybius and SallustNicolas Wiater39. Writing with Posterity in Mind: Thucydides and Tacitus on SecessionCynthia Damon40. Thucydides, Procopius, and the Historians of the Later Roman EmpireConor Whately

Sara Forsdyke is Professor of Classical Studies and History, University of Michigan.Edith Foster is Senior Research Associate, Case Western University and Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Strasbourg.Ryan Balot is Professor of Political Science and Classics, University of Toronto.

Overall, the volume is a useful survey of contemporary Thucydidean scholarship ... For libraries of universities offering courses in classics and ancient history. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

• Introduction Section I: Thucydides as Historian01 Thucydides' Historical MethodSara Forsdyke02 Thucydides on Early Greek HistoryHans van Wees03 The PentecontaetiaLisa Kallet04 Military Malaise and a Hobbled Hegemony: Sparta and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian League in Thucydides' HistoryEllen Millender05 Thucydides on the Athenian Empire and Interstate RelationsPolly Low06 Thucydides on the Causes and Outbreak of the Peloponnesian WarEric Robinson07 Thucydides on the First Ten Years of War (Archidamian War)Peter Hunt08 Mantinea, Decelea and the Interwar Years (421-413 BCE)Cinzia Bearzot09 Thucydides on the Sicilian ExpeditionEmily Greenwood10 Thucydides on the Four Hundred and the Fall of AthensAndrew Wolpert Section II: Thucydidean Historiography11. Writing History Implicitly through Refined StructuringHunter Rawlings12. Scale Matters: Compression, Expansion, and Vividness in ThucydidesW. R. Connor13. The Tree, the Funnel, and the Diptych: Some Patterns in Thucydides' Longest SentencesJeffrey Rusten14. Authorial Comments in ThucydidesMatthieu de Bakker15. Thucydides and Myth: A Complex Relation to Past and PresentRosaria Munson16. SpeechesAntonis Tsakmakis17. Characterization of Individuals in Thucydides' HistoryPhilip Stadter18. Campaign and Battle Narratives in ThucydidesEdith Foster Section III: Thucydides and Political Theory19. Was Thucydides a Political Philosopher?Ryan Balot20. Kinêsis, Navies and the Power Trap in ThucydidesArlene Saxonhouse21. Thucydides on Nature and Human ConductClifford Orwin22. Thucydides and the Politics of NecessityKinch Hoekstra and Mark Fisher23. The Regime (Politeia) in ThucydidesSeth Jaffe24. STASIS in the War NarrativeMichael Palmer25. Religion, Politics, and PietyPaul Rahe26. Thucydides on the Political PassionsVictoria Wohl27. Leaders and Leadership in Thucydides' HistoryMary P. Nichols28. Thucydides and CrowdsJohn Zumbrunnen29. Thucydides, International Law, and International AnarchyArthur Eckstein30. Xenophon as a Socratic Reader of ThucydidesPaul Ludwig31. Political Philosophy in an Unstable World: Comparing Thucydides and Plato on the Possibilities of PoliticsGerald Mara Section IV: Contexts and Ancient Reception of Thucydidean Historiography32. Thucydides' Predecessors and Contemporaries in Historical Poetry and ProseLeone Porciani33. Thucydides and His Intellectual MilieuRosalind Thomas34. Thucydides, Epic, and TragedyTobias Joho35. Thucydides and Attic ComedyJeffrey Henderson36. Thucydides and his ContinuatorsVivienne Gray37. History, Rhetoric, and Truth: Dionysius of Halicarnassus on ThucydidesCasper de Jonge38. Polybius and SallustNicolas Wiater39. Writing with Posterity in Mind: Thucydides and Tacitus on SecessionCynthia Damon40. Thucydides, Procopius, and the Historians of the Later Roman EmpireConor Whately