[This] new short introduction is welcome, not only to classicists ... Rhodes outlines all the right questions to ask about the text and sends the reader back to find the places which will yield the answers ... [R]eaders beginning to get to grips with Thucydides will find this an invaluable guide.
Classics For All Reviews
Readers seeking to ... Read moreorient themselves for the first time to scholarship on the historian will be particularly well served, but even specialists will find much of interest here.
The Classical Review
Simultaneously comprehensive and concise, an investigation-without adulation- of Thucydides' underlying approach to writing history through revealing collections of parallel passages, his possible omissions or exaggerations, and his later reputation, from the perspective of one of the foremost modern historians of classical Greece.
Jeffrey Rusten, Professor of Classics, Cornell University, USA Show Less