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THUCYDIDES AND THE

PELOPONNESIAN WAR

‘Cawkwell is an important historian . . . [this book] is typical of his style,

his scholarship and his humanity, and ought to be read.’

Hugh Bowden, King’s College, University of London

Understanding the history of Athens in the all important years of the

second half of the fifth century BC is largely dependent on the legacy of

the historian Thucydides. Previous scholarship has tended to view

Thucydides’ account as infallible. This book challenges that received

wisdom, advancing original and controversial views of Thucydides’ account

of the Peloponnesian war; his misrepresentation of Alcibiades and

Demosthenes; his relationship with Pericles; and his views on the Athenian

Empire. Cawkwell’s comprehensive analysis of Thucydides and his

historical writings is persuasive, erudite and is an immensely valuable

addition to the scholarship and criticism of a rich and popular period of

Greek history.

George Cawkwell arrived in Oxford in 1946 as a New Zealand Rhodes

Scholar and, like the lotus-eaters, ‘forgot the way home’. In 1949 he became

a Fellow of University College, Oxford where he tutored in Ancient History

until 1995. He is the author of Philip of Macedon (1978) and many articles

in learned journals on the history of Greece from the eighth to the fourth

century BC .

THUCYDIDES

AND THE

PELOPONNESIAN

WAR

George Cawkwell

London and New York

First published 1997

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001.

in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or

hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information

storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data

Cawkwell, George.

Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War / George Cawkwell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Thucydides–Political and social views. 2. Greece–History–Peloponnesian War,

431–404 BC –Historiography. 3. Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.

I. Title.

DF229.T6C37 1997

ISBN 0-415-16430-3 (hbk)

ISBN 0-415-16552-0 (pbk)

ISBN 0-203-12970-9 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-17932-3 (Glassbook Format)

938’.05’072–dc21 96–37755

CIP

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