Commentary

• The City and Man by Leo Strauss

  - Strauss, Leo. “On Thucydides' War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians.” In The City and Man, 50–85. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. Originally published 1964 by the University Press of Virginia.
  From the publisher: The City and Man consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle’s Politics, Plato’s Republic, and Thucydides’ Peloponnesian Wars. Together, the essays constitute a brilliant attempt to use… More

• The Human Thing: The Speeches and Principles of Thucydides’ History

  - Cogan, Marc.  The Human Thing: The Speeches and Principles of Thucydides' History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
  Introduces speeches of Thucydides’ History, including Pericles Funeral Oration.

• Past and Process in Herodotus and Thucydides

  - Hunter, Virginia. Past and Process in Herodotus and Thucydides. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

• Die Anfänge der Geschichtsschreibung bei den Griechen: Herodot, Thukydides

  - Schadewaldt, Wolfgang.  Die Anfänge der Geschichtsschreibung bei den Griechen: Herodot, Thukydides, ed. Ingeborg Schudoma. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1982.

• “Thucydides and Hellanicus”

  - Smart, J. D. "Thucydides and Hellanicus." In Past Perspectives: Studies in Greek and Roman Historical Writing, ed. id., I. S. Moxon, and A. J. Woodman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1986.
  Overview: The ten papers that make up this volume were originally presented at a conference on ‘The Greek and Roman Historians’, held at the University of Leeds in 1983. Some of the articles investigate in detail the assumptions, prejudices and… More

• The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism

  - Strauss, Leo, “The Meaning of Political History,” The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism, ed. T. Pangle Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1989.
  Review: This concise and accessible introduction to Strauss’s thought provides, for wider audience, a bridge to his more complex theoretical work. Editor Pangle has gathered five of Strauss’s previously unpublished lectures and five hard-to-find… More

• “Thucydides’ Contest: Thucydidean “Methodology in Context”

  - Orwin, Clifford, “Thucydides’ Contest: Thucydidean “Methodology in Context”, The Review of Politics, vol. 51, no. 3, 345-364, 1989.

• Ethics in Thucydides

  - Williams, Mary Frances. Ethics in Thucydides, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998.
  Overview: Ethics in Thucydides uses the historian’s account of the resolution at Corcyra as the basis for determining a moral or ethical perspective in Thucydides’ History. Various scenes, speeches, and narrative descriptions are analyzed in… More

• Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History

  - Shanske, Darien.  Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,  2007.
  Overview: This book addresses the question of how and why history begins with the work of Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War is distinctive in that it is a prose narrative, meant to be read rather than performed. It focuses on the unfolding of… More

• Thucydides: The Reinvention of History

  - Kagan, Donald. Thucydides: The Reinvention of History, New York: Penguin Books, 2010.
  From the publisher: Yale professor of classics Kagan thoroughly examines Thucydides’ life and work to successfully demonstrate that the Athenian historian was the first to utilize a truly professional (i.e., realistic and methodical) approach in recounting… More