Tabla de Contenidos:
  • In dialogue with Thucydides
  • The reader's task
  • The Corcyrean conflict (1.24-55)
  • Punctuated history : the case of Plataea
  • Historical lessons in the Melian episode
  • The comparison of cities and individuals
  • Maxims and assimilation in the Mytilenian debate
  • Athens the tyrant-city and the function of political metaphor
  • Thucydides' life and work
  • Ancient and modern audiences.