Section outline

  • Week XI:  (November 10-14)

    Readings: Thucydides VI.1-8

    Secondary Reading:  Plutarch Life of Nicias, Plutarch Life of Alcibiades

    Supplementary Reading:

    ·       Morakis, Andreas. 2011. “Thucydides and the Character of Greek Colonisation in Sicily.” Classical Quarterly 61 (2): 460–92.

    ·       Zahrnt, Michael. 2006. “Sicily and Southern Italy in Thucydides.” In Brill’s Companion to Thucydides, edited by Antonis Tsakmakis and Antonios Rengakos, 629–655. Leiden: Brill.