Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War - Taylor, Martha (Loyola College, Maryland)

The first comprehensive study of Thucydides' presentation of Pericles' radical redefinition of the city of Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Martha Taylor argues that Thucydides subtly critiques Pericles' vision of Athens as a city divorced from the territory of Attica and focused, instead, on the sea and the empire.