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The essential Thucydides. On Justice, Power, and Human Nature. Second Edition expanded and revised. Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War. Edited and translated by Paul Woodruff

Typology: Translation | Language: English | Place of publication: Indianapolis-Cambridge | Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company | Year: 2021

Greek Text: no

Content: Anthologies | Pericles’ Funeral Oration | Athens’ Plague | The Debate on Mytilene | The Stasis at Corcyra | The Melian Dialogue

Second edition of Woodrow 1993. Translation of selected passages from the History: it features all the text included in Woodrow 1993, and adds the following translated passages: Thuc. 1.31-53 (The Corcyrean Debate); 2.1-34 (Opening of the War), 83-92 (Phormio's Naval Battle); 3.1-16, 27-28, 35 (The Mytilene Rebellion), 70-81 (The Stasis at Corcyra); 4.59-65 (The Speech of Hermocrates), 96 (The Battle of Delium); 5.15-17 (The Peace of Nicias).

Related editions:

• On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War. Edited and translated by Paul Woodruff