The Speeches in Thucydides
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The Speeches in Thucydides

A Collection of Original Studies with a Bibliography

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Speeches in Thucydides

A Collection of Original Studies with a Bibliography

About this book

In this collection of nine essays, a group of internationally known classicists examine from a variety of viewpoints the speeches that Thucydides inserted into the history of the Peloponnesian War. The essayists include: William C. West III, Henry R. Immerwahr, W. James McCoy, Philip A. Stadter, A. R. Rubitschek, N. G. L. Hammond, Hans-Peter Stahl, and H. D. Westlake. George W. Kennedy provides an introduction.

Originally published in 1973.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. The Speeches in Thucydides: A Description and Listing
  5. Pathology of Power and the Speeches in Thucydides
  6. The Speech of the Athenians at Sparta
  7. The Particular and the Universal in the Speeches in Thucydides with Special Reference to That of Hermocrates at Gela
  8. Speeches and Course of Events in Books Six and Seven of Thucydides
  9. The "Non-Speeches" of Pisander in Thucydides, Book Eight
  10. The Settings of Thucydidean Speeches
  11. Thucydidean Orators in Plutarch
  12. A Bibliography of Scholarship on the Speeches in Thucydides, 1873–1970
  13. Index of Names and Passages