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CAMBRIDGE
GREEK
AND
LATIN
CLASSICS
THUCYDIDES THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR BOOK
EDITED CHRISTOPHER
VI
BY PELLING
CAMBRIDGE
GREEK
AND
GENERAL P.
E.
LATIN
CLASSICS
EDITORS
EASTERLING
Regius Professor Emeritus of Greek, Untversity of Cambridge
PuiriP
HARDIE
Fellow, Trinity College, and Honorary Professor of Latin Emeritus, University of Cambridge
TNEIL
HOPKINSON
RicHaRD
HUNTER
Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus, Unzversity of Cambridge
S. P. OAKLEY
Kennedy Professor of Latin, Untversity of Cambridge
OLIVER
THOMAS
Associate Professor in Classics, University of Nottingham CHRISTOPHER WHITTON Professor of Latin Literature, University of Cambridge
FOUNDING
EDITORS
P. E. EASTERLING TE.
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THUCYDIDES
THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR BOOK EDITED
VI BY
CHRISTOPHER
PELLING
Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek, Unsversity of Oxford
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CONTENTS List of Maps List of Figures Preface List of Abbreviations Maps
page vi vii IX xi ΧΙν
Introduction
1
I Thucydides and the Sicilian Expedition 2 Author, Audience, and Performance
3 Book 6 in the History (a) Books 6—7
8
14 14
(b) Book 5 and Book 6
17
(c) Book 6 in the Whole
20
4 The Speeches
22
5 Athens and Syracuse
20
6 The Text
36
Deviations from Alberti
38
Sigla
40
THUCYDIDES: BOOK VI
41
Commentary
93
Works Cited Indexes I General 2 Language, Style, and Narrative Technique 3 Greek
321 342 348 350
MAPS 1 Sicily 2 Southern Italy 3 Greece 4 Syracuse
page X1V XV XVl xvlil
FIGURES 1 Vase of satyr attacking Herm. Musée cantonal d’archéologie et d'histoire, Lausanne. Inv. 3250.
2 Harmodius and Aristogeiton. Roman copy of fifth-century BCE statues by Critius and Nesiotes. Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale.
page 173
222
PREFACE ‘Tacitus was a great man', said Macaulay; ‘but he was not up to the Sicilian expedition'.' To write commentaries on Thucydides' Sicilian books is a daunting privilege. The excellence of the narrative is beyond doubt: as Plutarch says (Nicias 1.1), these show Thucydides at his ‘most emotional, most vivid, and most varied'. To try to explain how that excellence
is achieved risks labouring the obvious and compromising that immediacy. Nor is it exactly untrodden territory. The great nineteenth- and early twentieth-century commentaries — Krüger, Poppo and Stahl, and Classen and Steup, all still immensely useful - had mighty successors: Dover's
1970 contribution
to Gomme,
Andrewes,
and Dover's Historical
Commentary on Thucydides (hereafter, HCT) and Hornblower's 2008 third volume of his Commentary on Thucydides (hereafter, CT). Dover has many textual and Hornblower many literary comments to complement their thorough treatment of the history. Yet the attempt to add two more commentaries is still worthwhile. Books 6 and 7 are natural choices for those coming to Thucydides for the first time, perhaps in an undergraduate or graduate class; but Thucydides' Greek is notoriously difficult, especially in the speeches, and Book 6 has the most speeches of them all. It is not just the novice reader that often needs, or at least welcomes,
help, and even
Dover's shorter school commentaries (1965) took too much prior facility for granted. I have therefore included more linguistic explanation than in two earlier 'green-and-yellows' (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics), my single-authored Plutarch's Antony (1988) and the Herodotus Book 6 co-written with Simon Hornblower (2017). Many notes too are keyed to the Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (van Emde Boas, Rijksbaron, Huitink and de Bakker 2019), and I hope that these too will be helpful. In many Thucydidean sentences the syntax is difficult or ambiguous while the meaning is clear, and not every native speaker may have heard that syntax in the same way. I have tried to keep this in mind throughout, along with the importance of oral delivery for texts that were designed for hearing as well as reading. In line with the aims of the series, I have also given particular attention to literary aspects. This has often squeezed out historical material that would be relevant even for a literary critic, for one can hardly gauge what Thucydides has done with his material without an idea of what that material would have been. Still, brevity here may be forgiven because so much ' Macaulay, letter to Thomas Flower Ellis, 25 July 1836, Pinney 1974-81 iii: 181
(cited by Rood
2017: 20).
Χ
PREFACE
is readily accessible in the commentaries of Dover and Hornblower: ‘cf. HCT and CT’ could have been added much more frequently than it is, and can be taken for granted throughout. In particular, there are many topographical issues which cannot be gone into here, especially in the closing chapters of Book 6, and here the thorough work done by Dover and by Peter Green (Green 1970) 15 still as authoritative as ever. What I have tried to contribute is more attention to what listeners or readers without maps or local knowledge would make of the narrative and what sort of picture of the terrain they would build. Thucydides tried to tell them what they needed to know to make sense of his account, but that would not always have been easy and sometimes it is hard to think that it was possible. Still, even when bewildered those readers or listeners would carry away an impression of a writer thoroughly in command of his material, and that, perhaps, was enough. Many debts have been accumulated. These commentaries were originally to be jointly written with John Marincola: that turned out to be impossible, but I have benefited from his advice and from an Oxford graduate seminar that he and I gave in summer 2017. A notable moment came when, after discussion of the debate of the generals at 6.47—50.1, a straw vote produced a majority for Nicias. They were a cautious group. Emily Baragwanath kindly agreed to expose some of her own graduate students to an early draft of the commentary on 6.1-31, and her reports and advice were invaluable. Edith Foster, busy with her own commentary on Book 4, found time to exchange materials and send very useful comments. I have also gained much from e-correspondence with Elisabetta Bianco, Bob Connor, Irene de Jong, Donald Lateiner, Christopher Mallan, Hunter Rawlings III, Jeff Rusten, Dan Tompkins, and Tony Woodman, and from conversations locally in Oxford with Richard Rutherford, Tim Rood, and Andreas Willi. The series editors, Richard Hunter and the late Neil
Hopkinson, went through the drafts with their usual meticulous eyes for detail and for superfluity, and I am grateful. One final debt is to Simon Hornblower. I have not embarrassed him by asking him to read any of what I have written, but he has been supportive throughout and has lent books and expertise. After collaborating with him literally in our commentary on Herodotus Book 6, I have often found myself figuratively doing the same in these two volumes, with his commentary always on my desk. This and its sister commentary on Book 7 should appear almost simultaneously. Each is complete in itself and some material appears in both introductions, but there are many cross-references to the other volume in the form, e.g. ‘cf. 7.69.2 n.'. Where references are to other passages in Book 6, the chapter number is printed in bold.
ABBREVIATIONS Where dates are given in the form 418/7 they refer to archon-years; when in the form 418-417 they refer to a period, normally the winter, spanning both calendar years. I
ANCIENT
AUTHORS
AND
WORKS
Abbreviations for Greek and Latin authors usually follow those in OCD,
except for the following:
D. H. Diod. Hdt. Plut. Th. X. Ar. is Aristophane II
TEXTS,
Dionysius of Halicarnassus Diodorus Herodotus Plutarch Thucydides Xenophon s, Arist. 15 Aristotle.
COMMENTARIES, WORKS
AND
SECONDARY
G. B. Alberti, Thucydidis historiae, $ vols. (Rome,
1972—2000) J. K. Davies, Athenian propertied families 600-300 BC (Oxford, 1971) R. Talbert (ed.), Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman world (Princeton, 2000) E.-A. Bétant, Lexicon Thucydideum, 2 vols. (Geneva,
1843; repr. Hildesheim, 1969) I. Worthington (ed.), Brill's new Jacoby (Leiden,
on-line) H. Cancik, H. Schneider, and M. Landester (eds.), Brill's new Pauly (Leiden, Boston, and Cologne, in
print and on-line, 1996-) Cambridge Ancient History. Most references are to vol. iv*, Persia, Greece and the western Mediterranean c. 525 to 479 B.C. (ed.J. Boardman, N. G. L. Hammond,
D. M. Lewis,
and M. Ostwald, Cambridge, 1988) and vol. v*, The fifth century B.c. (ed. D. M. Lewis,J. Boardman,J. K. Davies,
and M. Ostwald, Cambridge, 1992)
xl
ABBREVIATIONS
ΧΙ
CGCG
F. van Emde Boas, A. Rijksbaron, L. Huitink, and M.
CHGRW
P. Sabin, H. van Wees, and M. Whitby (eds.), The
C-S CT
EGM FGrH Fornara
GG
de Bakker, The Cambridge grammar of Classical Greek (Cambridge, 2019) Cambridge History of Greek and Roman warfare ii (Cambridge, 2017)
J. Classen, Thukydides. Sechster Band, Sechstes Buch, bear-
beitet vonJ. Steup (Berlin, 3rd ed., 1905) S. Hornblower, A commentary on Thucydides, g vols. (Oxford, 1991-2008); unless noted otherwise, references are to vol. ΠΙ, and if no page number is given the reference is to the note on the passage discussed R. L. Fowler, Early Greek mythography, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2000-19) F. Jacoby, et al., Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (Berlin and Leiden, 1923-58; Leiden, 1994-) C. W. Fornara, Archaic times to the end of the Peloponnesian War ( Translated documents of Greece C? Rome 1, Cambridge, 2nd ed., 1983)
W. W. Goodwin, A Greek grammar (Basingstoke and London, new ed., 1930)
GP
J. D. Denniston,
GSW Hammond
W. K. Pritchett, The Greek state at war, vols. 1-v (Berkeley and London, 1971-91) M. Hammond, Thucydides: the Pelobonnesian War
HCT
(Oxford, 2009) A. Andrewes, A. W. Gomme,
Hornblower-
and if no page number is given the reference is to the note on the passage discussed S. Hornblower and C. Pelling, Herodotus: Book 6
Huitink-Rood
L. Huitink and T. Rood, Xenophon: Anabasis Book ΠΙ
IACP
M. H. Hansen and T. H. Nielsen (eds.), An inventory of
IG ILS
Inscriptiones Graecae, Berlin (1873-)
1954)
The Greek particles (Oxtford, 2nd ed.,
and K. J. Dover, A histor-
ical commentary on Thucydides, 5 vols. (Oxford 1945-
80); unless otherwise noted, references are to vol. 1v,
Pelling
(Cambridge, 2017) (Cambridge, 2019)
archaic and classical Greek poleis (Oxford, 2004)
H. Dessau (ed.), Inscriptiones Latinae selectae (Berlin,
1892-1916)
ABBREVIATIONS
xiii
Κ-Α
R. Kassel and C. Austin, Poetae comici Graeci (Berlin,
Krüger
K. W. Krüger, Θουκυδίδου Συγγραφη mit erklàrenden Anmerkungen, zweiten Bandes erstes Heft, fünftes und sechstes Buch (Berlin, 2nd ed., 1858)
LGPN LSJ
1983-9)
P. M. Fraser εἴ al., A lexicon of Greek personal names (Oxford, 1987-)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, and H. S. Jones, A Greek—English
ΜΘΊ
lexicon (Oxford, gth ed. with rev. supplement, 1996) W. W. Goodwin, Syntax of the moods and tenses of the Greek verb (Boston and London, 1890; reissued, 1965)
Marchant
E. C. Marchant,
ML
Thucydides: Book vi (London,
1906)
R. Meiggs and D. Lewis, A selection of Greek historical inscriptions to the end of the fifth century BC (Oxford, revised ed., 1988)
S. Hornblower, A. J. S. Spawforth and E. Eidinow, eds.,
The Oxford classical dictionary (Oxford, 4th ed., 2012) Oxford classical text R. Osborne and P. J. Rhodes, Greek historical inscriptions 478-404 BC (Oxford, 2017) Oxyrhynchus papyri E. F. Poppo, Thucydidis de bello Peloponnesiaco, vol. 111, sect. 1, rev. and aug.J. M. Stahl (Leipzig, 2nd ed.,
1879)
P. J. Rhodes and R. Osborne
(eds.), Greek historical
inscriptions 404—323 BC (Oxford, 2003) J. S. Rusten, Thucydides: the Pelobonnesian War book 2 (Cambridge, 1989) Scholiast Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum (Amsterdam, Walbank
1923-)
M. Walbank, Athenian proxenies of the fifth century Bc (Toronto,
1978)
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