Thucydides and Xenophon

[eugene]

Does somebody has any articles about Thucydides, Xenophon: their lives, ideas and historiographical method? I am also interested in the articles and books about their views on war and warfare .

[D B Campbell]

You may be interested in Bob Strassler's new Landmark editions of Xenophon and Thucydides, with copious maps, notes and appendices. (He previously did Herodotus, and Caesar's Gallic War is in progress.)

[Jona Lendering]

I was deeply impressed by Simon Horblower's Thucydides, and I think that it is still a good book.

[Paullus Scipio]

J.K. Anderson, author of "Military Theory and Practice in the age of Xenophon", indispensible to any student of military affairs of the era, also wrote an excellent biography of him for the Classical Life and Letters series published by Duckworth;

"Xenophon" J.K. Anderson, pub. by Gerald Duckworth & co, London 1974 ISBN 0 7156 0702 2

He also gets 10 pages or so in Michael Grant's "The Ancient Historians", but Thucydides does better with 45 pages. The book is an excellent summation of all our major Greek and Latin sources;
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"The Ancient Historians" Michael Grant, pub by Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, London 1970 SBN 297 00080 2

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

Martin Hammond's translation of Thucydides (Oxford Press) has a nice intro in which he writes about the historiography of Thucydides and also views expressed by Ranke etc.

a very enjoyable book.

M.VIB.M.

[eugene]

I have heard that not long ago it has benn edited in Germany a recent research about Thucydides s views on warfare. Does anybody posesses information about this book (full title, place of edition etc.)?

[Paralus]

Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War, George Cawkwell. An essay based book on Thucydides' treatment of the war, Cleon, Alcibiades, Imperialism, et al.

Athens and Sparta: constructing Greek political and social history from 478 BC, Anton Powell. A discussion of Sparto-Athenian relations based on source criticism of Thucydides.

[D B Campbell]

I have heard that not long ago it has benn edited in Germany a recent research about Thucydides s views on warfare.

Is it this one? Or maybe this one?

[Xenophon223]

The Long March: Xenophon and Ten Thousand, Robin Lane Fox ed. Yale University Press, 2004 0-300-10403-0

It's a collection of essays from a 2001 Oxford seminar on Xenophon. It's a great read and one of the coolest surprises my wife ever gave me.