SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Greek Text

The most recent major editions are:

Alberti, J. B. (Latinized from ‘G. B.’), 3 vols. (Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1972–2000).

Romilly, J. de, with R. Weil and L. Bodin (Coll. Budé: with French translation), 6 vols. (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1953–72; vol. i2 1958).

Smith, C. F. (Loeb Classical Library: with English translation), 4 vols. (London: Heinemann; Harvard University Press, 1919–23; revised 1928–35); the last volume has a good index.

Stuart Jones, H., with apparatus criticus revised by J. E. Powell (Oxford Classical Texts), 2 vols. (Oxford University Press, 1942; index revised 1963).

English Commentaries

Cartwright, D., A Historical Commentary on Thucydides (based on the Penguin translation) (University of Michigan Press, 1997).

Dover, K. J., editions of Books 6 and 7, with commentary (Oxford University Press, 1965).

Gomme, A. W., Andrewes, A., and Dover, K. J., A Historical Commentary on Thucydides, 5 vols. (Oxford University Press, 1945–81; vol. i corrected 1950).

Hornblower, S., A Commentary on Thucydides, 3 vols. (Oxford University Press, 1991–2008; revised 1997– ).

Rhodes, P. J., editions of Books 2, 3, and 4.1–5.24, with translation and commentary (Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1988, 1994, 1998).

Rusten, J. S., edition of Book 2, with commentary (Cambridge University Press, 1989).

On Thucydides

Badian, E., ‘Thucydides and the Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War: A Historian’s Brief’, in J. W. Allison (ed.), Conflict, Antithesis and the Ancient Historian (Ohio State University Press, 1990), 49–91, with 165–81; revised in Badian, From Plataea to Potidaea (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), 125–62, with 223–36.

Bauslaugh, R. A., ‘The Text of Thucydides 4.8.6 and the South Channel at Pylos’, JHS 99 (1979), 1–6.

Cawkwell, G. L., Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War (London: Routledge, 1997).

Connor, W. R., Thucydides (Princeton University Press, 1984).

Cornford, F. M., Thucydides Mythistoricus (London: Arnold, 1907).

Dover, K. J., Thucydides, Greece & Rome: New Surveys in the Classics, 7 (Oxford University Press, 1973).

Finley, J. H., jun., Three Essays on Thucydides (Harvard University Press, 1967).

—— Thucydides (Harvard University Press, 1942).

Flory, S., ‘The Death of Thucydides and the Motif of “Land on Sea”’, in Nomodeiktes: Greek Studies in Honor of M. Ostwald (University of Michigan Press, 1993), 113–23.

Fornara, C. W., ‘Thucydides’ Birth Date’, in Nomodeiktes: Greek Studies in Honor of M. Ostwald (University of Michigan Press, 1993), 71–80.

Hornblower, S., ‘Narratology and Narrative Techniques in Thucydides’, in id. (ed.), Greek Historiography (Oxford University Press, 1994), 131–66, ch. 5.

—— ‘The Fourth-Century and Hellenistic Reception of Thucydides’, JHS 115 (1995), 47–68.

—— Thucydides (London: Duckworth; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987; revised 1994).

Hunter, V. J., Thucydides, the Artful Reporter (Toronto: Hakkert, 1973).

Kallet, L., Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides: The Sicilian Expedition and its Aftermath (University of California Press, 2001).

Kallet-Marx, L., Money, Expense and Naval Power in Thucydides’ History, 1–5.24 (University of California Press, 1993).

Kitto, H. D. F., Poiesis (on Thucydides, ch. 6), Sather Classical Lectures, 36 (University of California Press, 1966).

Marinatos, N., ‘Thucydides and Oracles’, JHS 101 (1981), 138–40.

Maurer, K., Interpolation in Thucydides, Mnemosyne Suppl. 150 (1995).

Oost, S. I., ‘Thucydides and the Irrational: Sundry Passages’, CPhil 70 (1975), 186–96.

Pouilloux, J., and Salviat, F., ‘Lichas, Lacédémonien, archonte à Thasos, et le livre viii de Thucydide’, CR Acad. Inscr. (1983), 376–403.

Rengakos, A., and Tsakmakis, A. (eds.), Brill’s Companion to Thucydides (Leiden: Brill, 2006).

Rhodes, P. J., ‘“Epidamnus is a City”: On Not Over-Interpreting Thucydides’, Histos, 2 (1998) (http://www.durham.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1998/rhodes.html).

—— ‘In Defence of the Greek Historians’, G&R2 41 (1994), 156–71.

—— ‘Thucydides on the Causes of the Peloponnesian War’, Hermes, 115 (1987), 154–65.

Romilly, J. de, Histoire et raison chez Thucydide (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1956).

Rood, T., Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation (Oxford University Press, 1998).

Stroud, R. S., ‘Thucydides and Corinth’, Chiron, 24 (1994), 267–304.

Wade-Gery, H. T., ‘Thucydides (2)’, OCD3 (1996), 1516–19 (repeated from first and second editions).

Woodman, A. J., Rhetoric in Classical Historiography (on Thucydides, ch. 1) (London and Sydney: Croom Helm; Portland, Ore.: Areopagitica, 1988).

Zagorin, P., Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader (Princeton University Press, 2005).

General

Cambridge Ancient History, vols. ii. 13, ii. 23, iii. 12, iii. 32, iv2, v2 (Cambridge University Press, 1973, 1975, 1982, 1982, 1988, 1992).

Davies, J. K., Athenian Propertied Families, 600–300 BC (Oxford University Press, 1971).

de Ste. Croix, G. E. M., ‘Herodotus’, G&R2 24 (1977), 130–48.

—— ‘The Character of the Athenian Empire’, Hist. 3 (1954–5), 1–41.

—— The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (London: Duckworth; Cornell University Press, 1972).

Develin, R., Athenian Officials, 684–321 BC (Cambridge University Press, 1989).

Dover, K. J., The Greeks and their Legacy, Collected Papers, ii: Prose Literature, History, Society, Transmission, Influence (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988).

Gabba, E., ‘True History and False History in Classical Antiquity’, JRS 71 (1981), 50–62.

Hall, J., A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200–479 BCE (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007).

Hammond, N. G. L. (ed.), Atlas of the Greek and Roman World in Antiquity (Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes, 1981).

Hansen, M. H., and Nielsen, T. H. (eds.), An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Hanson, V. D., A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War (London: Methuen; New York: Random House, 2005).

Hornblower, J., Hieronymus of Cardia (Oxford University Press, 1981).

Hornblower, S., The Greek World, 479–323 BC (London: Routledge, 32002).

Jong, I. J. F. de, A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

—— Narrators and Focalizers: The Presentation of the Story in the Iliad (Amsterdam: Gruner, 1987; London: Duckworth (Bristol Classical Press), 22004).

Kagan, D., The Archidamian War (Cornell University Press, 1974).

—— The Fall of the Athenian Empire (Cornell University Press, 1987).

—— The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (Cornell University Press, 1969).

—— The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition (Cornell University Press, 1981).

——The Peloponnesian War (London: HarperCollins; New York: Viking, 2003).

Lazenby, J. F., The Peloponnesian War: A Military Study (London: Routledge, 2004).

Morrison, J. S., Coates, J. F., and Rankov, N. B., The Athenian Trireme (Cambridge University Press, 22000).

Osborne, R., Greece in the Making, 1200–479 BC (London: Routledge, 1996).

Pritchett, W. K., The Greek State at War (University of California Press, 1974–91; vol. i originally published as Ancient Greek Military Practices, 1971).

Rhodes, P. J., A History of the Classical Greek World, 478–323 BC (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005 (dated 2006) ).

Talbert, R. J. A. (ed.), Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Princeton University Press, 2000).

Further Reading in Oxford World’s Classics

Herodotus, The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield, edited by Carolyn Dewald.

The Homeric Hymns, translated by Michael Crudden.

Plato, Republic, translated by Robin Waterfield.

Plutarch, Greek Lives, translated by Robin Waterfield, edited by Philip A. Stadter.

Xenophon, The Expedition of Cyrus, translated by Robin Waterfield, edited by Tim Rood.