Thucydides(ISBN=9780143118299)

　　The bestselling author of The Peloponnesian War examines Thucydides as the first modern historian.
　　Donald Kagan's magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War is recognized as a landmark of classical scholarship. Now, Kagan-one of the most respected classical historians in the world-turns his attention from one of the greatest conflicts in history to the author who so magnificently chronicled it: Thucydides, the first truly modern historian. This study offers readers a remarkable opportunity to experience one great historian engaging another across the centuries, in a work that is at once an engrossing voyage of discovery, a moving tribute, and a revelatory meditation on the practice of history and its value in human affairs.

　　Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University and the recipient of a National Humanities Medal for 2002. He is the author of many books and articles on a wide range of subjects. He lives in Hamden, Connecticut.

Introduction
CHAPTER ONE" Thucydides the Revisionist
CHAPTER TWO: Causes of the War  Corcyra
CHAPTER THREE: Causes oftheWar
From Corcyra to the Megarian Decree
CHAPTER FOUR: The Strategy of Pericles
CHAPTER FIVE: Was Periclean Atliens a Democracy?
CHAPTER SIX: Cleon's Lucky Victory at P os
CHAPTER SEVEN: Thucydides and Cleon at Amphipolis
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Decision for a Sicilian Expedition
CHAPTER NINE: Who Was Responsible for the Sicilian Disaster?
Conclusion
NOTES
INDEX