The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly’s Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship o
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Thucydides has long been celebrated for the unflinching realism of his presentation of political life. And yet, as some
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In Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom, Mary P. Nichols argues for the centrality of the idea of freedom in Thucydides
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From the eighteenth century onwards, the ancient Greek writer Thucydides (c.460 c.395 bc) was viewed as the most importa
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Attempts to reach the mind of the historian and writer Thucydides, with a particular focus on his pessimism as he works
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Thucydides was labelled the 'greatest historian that ever lived' by Macauley and no study of Classical Greece
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Thucydides' work was one of the most exciting creations in the cultural history of Greece in the fifth century BC -
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