Studies in the Greek Historians (Paperback)

Preface; In memoriam Adam and Anne Parry E. A. Havelock; 1. Learning through suffering? Croesus' conversations in the history of Herodotus Hans-Peter Stahl; 2. An Athenian generation gap W. G. Forrest; 3. Thucydides' judgement of Periclean strategy George Cawkwell; 4. The speeches in Thucydides and the Mytilene debate Donald Kagan; 5. Xenophon, Diodorus and the year 379/378 BC. Reconstruction and reappraisal David G. Rice; 6. Aristotle's Athenaion Politeia and the establishment of the Thirty Tyrants W. James McCoy; 7. Nearchus the Cretan E. Badian; 8. Myth and archaeologia in Italy and Sicily - Timaeus and his predecessors Lionel Pearson; 9. Symploke: its role in Polybius' Histories F. W. Walbank; 10. Plutarch and the Megarian decree Charles Fornara; 11. Herodian and Elagabalus G. W. Bowersock.