This study centres on the rhetoric of the Athenian empire, Thucydides’ account of the Peloponnesian War and the notable discrepancies between his assessment o

Investigates literary memory in the fifth century BCE, covering poetry and oratory as well as the first Greek historians.

The most important study of the funeral oration for dead combatants in democratic Athens since Nicole Loraux's classic work.

Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language and culture, this collection of extracts from The History of the Peloponnesian War

Examines the way in which Sophocles' play "Oedipus Tyrannus" and its hero, Oedipus, King of Thebes, were probably received in their own time and place, and rela