Review of the hardback: '[Shanske's] book grasps tenaciously at important questions and never lets them out of sight. The author demonstrates an encyclopaedic grasp of the tradition and flashes of deep originality … [Shanske] has reopened the question of Thucydides' importance and status in the present.' BMCR

• Introduction; 1. Thucydides's text; 2. The case of Pericles; 3. Deinon, Logos, and the tragic question concerning the human; 4. Thucydidean temporality; Appendix 1. Restoring key terms, 1.1-1.23; Appendix 2. Pretragic history of Deinon; Appendix 3. Wittgenstein on fly-bottles, aspect seeing and history; Appendix 4. Heidegger on world and originary temporality.

Review of the hardback: '[Shanske's] book grasps tenaciously at important questions and never lets them out of sight. The author demonstrates an encyclopaedic grasp of the tradition and flashes of deep originality … [Shanske] has reopened the question of Thucydides' importance and status in the present.' BMCR

• Introduction; 1. Thucydides's text; 2. The case of Pericles; 3. Deinon, Logos, and the tragic question concerning the human; 4. Thucydidean temporality; Appendix 1. Restoring key terms, 1.1-1.23; Appendix 2. Pretragic history of Deinon; Appendix 3. Wittgenstein on fly-bottles, aspect seeing and history; Appendix 4. Heidegger on world and originary temporality.

Review of the hardback: '[Shanske's] book grasps tenaciously at important questions and never lets them out of sight. The author demonstrates an encyclopaedic grasp of the tradition and flashes of deep originality … [Shanske] has reopened the question of Thucydides' importance and status in the present.' BMCR

• Introduction; 1. Thucydides's text; 2. The case of Pericles; 3. Deinon, Logos, and the tragic question concerning the human; 4. Thucydidean temporality; Appendix 1. Restoring key terms, 1.1-1.23; Appendix 2. Pretragic history of Deinon; Appendix 3. Wittgenstein on fly-bottles, aspect seeing and history; Appendix 4. Heidegger on world and originary temporality.