Project | Global Thucydides
Catalogue | Digital catalogue
Entry | Thucydides, by the rev. W. Lucas Collins
Typology: Translation | Commentary | Language: English | Place of publication: Edinburgh | Publisher: William Blackwood and sons | Year: 1878
Greek Text: no
Content: Complete Work
An anthology of selected passages from the History (Introductory: Thuc. 1.20-22; 5.26; Preliminary history: Thuc. 1.89, 91; Causes of the war: Thuc. 1.68-71, 78, 86; Outbreak of hostilities: Thuc. 2.8, 16-17, 34, 36-41, 44-45; Athens' Plague: Thuc. 2.49-53, 61-63, 65; The siege of Plaaea: Thuc. 2.72; 3.23, 59; The fate of Mitylene: Thuc. 2.91-92; 3.38, 40, 49; The terror at Corcyra: Thuc. 3.81-83; 4.47-48; Demosthenes and Cleon: Thuc. 4.11-12, 80; Thucydides at Amphipolis: Thuc. 4.104, 107; 5.16; Argos: Thuc. 5.60, 70; The fate of Melos: Thuc. 5.89; The expedition to Sicily: Thuc. 4.59-65; 6.12-13, 16, 24, 30, 32, 92; The disaster at Syracuse: Thuc. 7.42, 48, 71, 75, 77) summarized, paraphrased, partially translated into English, and accompanied by commentary.