Bøger af Peter J. Rhodes

This volume completes Rhodes' edition of Thucydides' books on the Archidamian War, providing an introduction, Greek text with facing translation, and a commentary that caters for both specialists and readers with little or no Greek. Matters of text and language are discussed, but the emphasis is on the war and Thucydides' treatment of this subject.

This edition of Thucydides' History Book II provides an introduction, Greek text with facing translation, and a commentary that caters for both specialists and readers with little or no Greek. Matters of text and language are discussed where necessary, but the emphasis is on the Archidamian War and Thucydides' treatment of this subject.

This edition of Book I offers an Introduction to Thucydides' history and the Peloponnesian War, a Greek text with facing translation and a commentary written for both specialists and readers with little or no Greek. Matters of text and language are discussed, but the emphasis is on Thucydides' subject-matter -the greatest war in Greek history.

'Old Oligarch' is a label often applied to the unknown author of the Athenian Constitution preserved with the works of Xenophon. Probably written in the mid 420s B.C., it is the earliest surviving Athenian prose text, and its author was probably a young pupil of the teachers known as sophists.