     Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the Western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and heralliesthatlastedfrom431to404 andisamasterpieceofnarrativeart and of political analysis. The twenty chapters in this Companion offer a wide range of perspectives on different aspects of the text, its interpretation and its significance. The nature of the text is explored in detail, and problems of Thucydides’ historical and literary methodology are examined. Other chapters analyse the ways in which Thucydides’ work illuminates, or complicates, our understandingofkeyhistoricalquestionsforthisperiod,aboveallthoserelating to the nature and conduct of war, politics and empire. Finally, the book also exploresthecontinuinglegacyofThucydides,fromantiquitytothepresentday.  .  is a professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient HistoryatDurhamUniversity.HerpublicationsincludeInterstateRelationsin ClassicalGreece(2007)and(aseditor)TheAthenianEmpire(2008). CAMBRIDGE COMPANIONSTO LITERATURE Acompletelistofbooksintheseriesisatthebackofthisbook. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THUCYDIDES EDITED BY POLLY A. LOW Durham University ShaftesburyRoad,Cambridge28,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05–06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartofCambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment, adepartmentoftheUniversityofCambridge. WesharetheUniversity’smissiontocontributetosocietythroughthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107107052 :10.1017/9781316227442 ©CambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment2023 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisions ofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplace withoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment. Firstpublished2023 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData :Low,Polly,editor. :TheCambridgecompaniontoThucydides/editedbyPollyLow,UniversityofDurham. :Cambridgecompanionstoliterature. :Cambridge,UnitedKingdom;NewYork,NY:CambridgeUniversityPress, 2023.|Series:Cambridgecompanionstoliterature|Includesbibliographical referencesandindex. :2022030709(print)|2022030710(ebook)|9781107107052 (hardback)|9781107514607(paperback)|9781316227442(epub) ::Thucydides.|Thucydides–Themes,motives.|Thucydides–Influence.| Greece–History–PeloponnesianWar,431-404..–Historiography. :229.63452023(print)|229.6(ebook)| 938/.05–dc23/eng/20220712 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2022030709 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2022030710 978-1-107-10705-2Hardback 978-1-107-51460-7Paperback CambridgeUniversityPress&Assessmenthasnoresponsibilityforthepersistence oraccuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Tothe memoryof P. J.Rhodes CONTENTS ListofContributors pagexi Preface xv ListofAbbreviations xvii 1 Introduction 1  .     2 EstablishingaNewGenre:ThucydidesandNon-historiographic Memory 17   3 ThucydideanSelf-Presentation 31   4 Thucydides’UseofEvidenceandSources 50 . .  5 RhetoricalHistory:SpeechesinThucydides 63   6 ProlegomenatothePeloponnesianWar:ThucydidesBook1 77  .  7 TimeandForesightinThucydides 89    8 LabouringforTruthinThucydides 110   vii     9 ThucydidesandWar 129   10 ThucydidesonEmpireandImperialism 143  .  11 EthnicityinThucydides 160   12 ThucydidesandLeadership 177    13 ThucydidesonDemocracyandOtherRegimes 198  .  14 JusticeandMoralityinThucydides 215     15 ThucydidesinGreekandRomanHistoriography 233  .  16 ThucydidesinByzantium 249      17 ThucydidesintheRenaissanceandReformation 265   18 NarrativesofThucydidesandthe19th-CenturyDisciplineof (Ancient)History 282   19 ‘WhatReallyHappened’:VarietiesofRealisminThucydides’History 301    viii  20 TranslatingThucydides 317   Bibliography 331 IndexLocorum 365 SubjectIndex 373 ix