CONTENTS; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction; 1. An Overview of the Archidamian Narrative Structure (ii. 1-v.24); 2. Introductory Sentences (ii. 1-v.24); 3. Internal Structure of the Unit of Action (ii. 1-v.24); 4. Patterns Formed by Units of Action in the Archidamian Narrative (ii. 1-v.24); 5. The Years of the Peace (v.25-vi. 7): The Unit of Action Changing; 6. Years Seventeen through Twenty-one (v.8-viii. 109): The Unit of Action Transformed; 7. Some Conclusions: Thucydides' Narrative Structures (ii. 1-viii. 109); Notes; Bibliography; General Index; Index Locorum
Summary
A sustained analysis of the connections between narrative structure & meaning in the 'History of the Peloponnesian War' this volume focuses on the evident change in the underlying principles of the history at the conclusion of the first ten years
