Lisa Kallet is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin, and the author of Money, Expense, and Naval Power in Thucydides' History 1-5.24 (California 1993).

• Acknowledgments Note on Translation and Transliteration Abbreviations Introduction Prelude: The Demonstration of Power and the Ambiguity of Expense in the Melian Dialogue 1. Optical Illusions: Wealth and the Display of Power in the Beginning of the Sicilian Narrative 2. Intra- and Intertextual Patterns of Failure: Herodotos, Homer, and Thucydides 3. Money, Disease, and Moral Responsibility: The Economic Digression and the Massacre at Mykalessos, 7.27--30 4. Periousia Chrematon, Gnome, and Leadership 5. The Financing of the Sicilian Expedition and the Economic Nature of the Arche: Thucydides and Inscriptions 6. The Problem of Money in the Ionian War Conclusion Appendix: trofAe, misyOw, and xrAemata in Book 8 Bibliography Index

Lisa Kallet is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin, and the author of Money, Expense, and Naval Power in Thucydides' History 1-5.24 (California 1993).

• Acknowledgments Note on Translation and Transliteration Abbreviations Introduction Prelude: The Demonstration of Power and the Ambiguity of Expense in the Melian Dialogue 1. Optical Illusions: Wealth and the Display of Power in the Beginning of the Sicilian Narrative 2. Intra- and Intertextual Patterns of Failure: Herodotos, Homer, and Thucydides 3. Money, Disease, and Moral Responsibility: The Economic Digression and the Massacre at Mykalessos, 7.27--30 4. Periousia Chrematon, Gnome, and Leadership 5. The Financing of the Sicilian Expedition and the Economic Nature of the Arche: Thucydides and Inscriptions 6. The Problem of Money in the Ionian War Conclusion Appendix: trofAe, misyOw, and xrAemata in Book 8 Bibliography Index

Lisa Kallet is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin, and the author of Money, Expense, and Naval Power in Thucydides' History 1-5.24 (California 1993).

• Acknowledgments Note on Translation and Transliteration Abbreviations Introduction Prelude: The Demonstration of Power and the Ambiguity of Expense in the Melian Dialogue 1. Optical Illusions: Wealth and the Display of Power in the Beginning of the Sicilian Narrative 2. Intra- and Intertextual Patterns of Failure: Herodotos, Homer, and Thucydides 3. Money, Disease, and Moral Responsibility: The Economic Digression and the Massacre at Mykalessos, 7.27--30 4. Periousia Chrematon, Gnome, and Leadership 5. The Financing of the Sicilian Expedition and the Economic Nature of the Arche: Thucydides and Inscriptions 6. The Problem of Money in the Ionian War Conclusion Appendix: trofAe, misyOw, and xrAemata in Book 8 Bibliography Index