| Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity |
| Acknowledgments |
 | Introduction |
| • | Notes |
| 1. Sherman at Melos |
| • | Notes |
| 2. Truest Causes and Thucydidean Realisms |
| • | The Realisms of Thucydides |
| • | Thucydides and Political Realism |
| • | Notes |
| 3. Representations of Power before and after Thucydides |
| • | Inscribing the Limits of Authority: The Hegemony of Herodotus’s Spartans |
| • | Xenophon’s Self-Fashioning Spartans |
| • | Notes |
| 4. Power, Prestige, and the Corcyraean Affair |
| • | The Anger of Corinth |
| The Speeches of the Corcyraeans and Corinthians |
| • | Reciprocity and Status |
| • | Discrediting the Corcyraeans |
| • | Establishing Credibility |
| • | Notes |
| 5. Archaeology I |
| • | Views on Human Development |
| • | The Original Humanity and the Heroic Past |
| • | The Original Humanity and the Forces of Production |
| • | The Polis as the Basic Social Unit |
| • | The Constituent Ties of Society: Aidôs and Dikê |
| • | Notes |
| 6. Archaeology II |
| • | Wealth in the Archaic Period: Symbolic Rather Than Financial Capital |
| • | Thucydides and “Symbolic Capital” |
| • | Thucydides and Capital |
| • | Notes |
| 7. The Rule of the Strong and the Limits of Friendship |
| • | Mytilene |
| • | Spartan Traditionalism |
| • | Notes |
| 8. Archidamos and Sthenelaidas |
| • | Archidamos |
| • | Sthenelaidas |
| • | Archidamos’s Vision and Spartan Practice |
| • | Notes |
| 9. The Melian Dialogue |
| • | Herodotus’s Athenians and the Politics of Heroism |
| • | Thucydides and the Grandchildren of Salamis |
| • | Notes |
| 10. Athenian Theses |
| • | The Athenians at Sparta: Old Victories, New Lessons |
| • | “More Just” Rather Than “Just”: Justice as a Zero-Sum Game |
| • | Problems in the Data: Euphemos at Kamarina and the Melian Dialogue |
| • | Notes |
| 11. Conclusion |
| • | Essentialism, History, and Ideology in Thucydides |
| • | The City and Man |
| • | The Funeral Oration And The Price of Objectivity |
| • | Notes |
| Bibliography |
