Thucydides

Curated Articles

Different ways of expressing the idea of historiā in the prose of Herodotus and Thucydides

[This is an early draft of an article eventually published in Pushing the Boundaries of Historia, ed. Mary C. English and Lee Fratantuono, Routledge 2018, pp. 7–12. It appears here by permission of the editors. The page-breaks of the printed version will be indicated within braces: for example, “{7|8}” indicates where… Read more

Curated Articles

Great Expectations: The Expected and the Unexpected in Thucydides and in Liberal Education

[[The following text is adapted from a lecture given at the 9th Arthur and Mary Platsis Symposium, which was held on November 7, 2010 at the University of Michigan on the occasion of the retirement of H. Don Cameron. Portions of the text may be quoted without permission provided credit… Read more