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TAYLOR, Martha, Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010. 324p. 3 B&W ills. 3 maps. Cloth. Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War is 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. This book is unusual in that a third of it focuses on the much-neglected eighth book of Thucydides . Unlike most analyses of Thucydides and Pericles, this book argues that Thucydides critiques Pericles and his radical reinvention of the city of Athens. Although fully engaging in the specialists’ debates, the book is accessible to a wide readership. It assumes no knowledge of Greek or of the history of the Peloponnesian War. € 66.50 (New)