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Thucydides Reader: Annotated Passages from
Books I-VIII of the Histories

Thucydides Reader

Annotated Passages from Books I-VIII of the Histories

Blaise Nagy

The College of the Holy Cross

2005 • 1-58510-126-5 • paper • 164 pages •  7 x 10 • $24.95

An illustrated Thucydides reader containing passages from books I-VIII of the Histories. This book should become the standard for any college course in reading Thucydides in Greek, and is also suitable for better intermediate students who want to tackle a popular but difficult author.

|  About the Author  |  Contents  |  Preface  |  Review  |

 Author                                                     

Blaise Nagy is Professor at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is currently Chair of the Classics Department. Professor Nagy is the author of numerous studies on Greek and Roman religion and has lectured extensively on ancient history. At Holy Cross, he teaches primarily Greek History, Roman Civilization and advanced courses in Greek and Roman authors.

Preface
Introductory Essay
Passages from the Histories
    Book I
    Book II
    Book III
    Book IV
    Book V
    Book VI
    Book VII
    Book VIII

     To my knowledge, there does not exist—nor has there ever existed—a Greek Reader for Thucydides in which selections from all eight books of the Histories are presented, along with grammatical notes and a modicum of historical and literary commentaries. The present Reader seeks to fill this void.

The Reader is a textbook where the instructor is continually called upon to provide additional background information, a more thorough historical contextualization, and a more detailed analysis of the syntax. The instructor who chooses to do so can also supplement this Reader with classroom presentations on the manuscript tradition of the Histories, the historio-graphical precedents to the Histories, the “reception theory” as it relates to the Histories, the Nachleben of the Histories, etc.

In the tradition of the Bryn Mawr Greek Commentaries Series, the notes in this Reader focus primarily on grammar and syntax.

. . . precious little has been done for the fledgling Greek student who wants to read the History but needs help with forms, syntax, and the peculiarities of Thucydides style. Nagy has changed the whole landscape. His Reader offers selections from every book, aimed at students who still need reminders about genitive absolutes and supplementary participles. His book has no rival, because we readers of Thucydides have had to wait so long for someone to do the job. In reading Nagy’s commentary, my sad emotion came from my sorrow that I hadn’t had a book like this in my two Thucydides courses.

-- Lee Fratantuono, University of Dallas Classics Department