Section outline

  • Week XII:  (November 17-21)

    Readings: Thucydides VI.9-12; Thucydides VI.13-17

    Secondary Reading: Tompkins, Daniel (1972). “Stylistic Characterization in Thucydides: Nicias and Alcibiades,” Yale Classical Studies XXII: 181-214.

    Supplementary Reading:

    ·       Ober, Josiah (1998). “Public Speech and Brute Fact:  Thucydides,” in Political Dissent in Democratic Athens:  Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule. Princeton: 52-121.