This is the second volume of a three-volume historical and literary commentary of the eight books of thucydides the great fifth-century bc historian of the peloponnesian war between athens and sparta. Books iv-v.24 Cover the years 425-421 bc and contain the pylos-spakteria narrative the delion campaign and brasidas operations in the north of greece. This volume ends with the peace of nikias and the alliance between athens and sparta. A new feature of this volume is the full thematic introduction which discusses such topics as thucydides and herodotus thucydide s presentation of brasidas thucydides and kinship speech--direct and indirect--in iv-v.24 Thucydides and epigraphy including personal names iv-v.24 As a work of art: innovative or merely incomplete thucydides intended his work to be an everlasting possession and the continuing importance of his work is undisputed. Simon hornblower s commentary by translating every passage of greek commented on for the first time allows readers with little or no greek to appreciate the detail of thucydides thought and subject-matter. A full index at the end of the volume.
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