Table of Contents

I. Shared worlds
1: Introduction
2: Could Thucydides have known Pindar, and did he?
3: Content and outlook
4: Myths, religion, women, colonization
5: People, places, prosopography, and politics
II. Thucydides Pindaricus
6: Introduction to Part II
7: The clearest example of Thucydides Pindaricus: 5.49-50, the Olympic Games of 420 BC
8: Statements of method; causation
9: `Antiquarian' excursions
10: Speeches
11: Narrative
12: Thucydides and Pindar: a stylistic comparison
Conclusion

About the Author

Simon Hornblower is Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University College London.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition No one has ever written a book like this before. No one but Simon Hornblower could write such a book now.'
TLS
`The results are exhilarating and breathless. The reader is dragged not only all over Pindar and Thucydides but also in and out of a great deal of modern scholarship, whose virtues and vices are gently pointed out along the way.'
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