The ancient Greek historians (Harvard lectures) by J. B. Bury.

280 ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIANS

'Theophrastus, 172, 190
Theopompus, 165 sqq.; Oxyrhynchus, fragment ascribed to,
by some, 156; condemned by
Duris, 173; 180
Theramenes, 121, 181
Thirty Years' Peace (445 B.C.),
instrument of, 85
Thrace, Thucydides illn, 75, 76;
89
Thrasymachus, 179, 181
Thucydides:
life, 7.5 sqq.; stages and changes
in composition of his work,
79 sqq. (cp. Appendix);
initiates true contemporary
history, 78; founder of political history, ib.; his work a
great step in historiography,
147
influence of Sophists on, 75, of
Athenian empire on, 76 sq.
principle of accuracy, 81 sq.;
principle of relevance, 87 s.q.,
100; omissions, 86 sq.
digressions, 88 sqq.; limitations
of, 146 sq.
view of the purpose of historiography, 81, 242 sq., 258 sq.;
renounced popularity, 167
collection of information, 83
sqq.; use of documents, 84
sq.; reference to an inscription as written douvpops
7pda/LLauav, 31; references to
Herodotus, 81, 103, 90; references to older works, ]03;
on Hellanicus, ib., 104 sq.;
on ancient piracy, 252
artistic method, 90 sq.;
dramatic method, 108, 117
qq.; differences in his style,
obscurity, etc., 110 sqq.;
style influenced by drama,124
speeches, 99 sq., 108 sqq.; of
Pericles, 113, 1 33 sqq.
(Epitaphios), 114 sq., 133, 136,
146 sq.; of Cleon, 109, 115
sq.; of Diodotus, 115, 137;
of Corcyrean envoy, 94; of
Corinthians, 96 sq., 116, 117;
of Alcibiades, 109; dialogue
of Archidamus and Plataeans,
113; Melian dialogue, 111,
113, 138 sqq. Cp. Appendix

Thucydides-contd.
reflexions on civil sedition (in
connexion with Corcyra),
113, 145
treatment of chronology, 73, 105
sq.; of economic facts, 91
sq.; sketch of early history
of Greece, 102 sqq.; of the
Pentekontaeteris, 104 sq.; on
the heroic age, 103
on the causes of the Peloponnesian war, 92 sqq.; use of alria
and trpidao-ns, 93; on general
course of the war and causes
of collapse of Athens, 124
sqq.; on the Athenian
empire, 135 sqq.; on Tyche,
125; on oracles, 129; charged
with want of patriotism, 131
sqq.
on the logic of policy, 138, 140
sq., 232; comparison with
Machiavelli, 143 sqq.
topographical mistakes, 86;
errors in text of, ib.
Book v., 85, 264 sq.; Book vmii.,
84, 85
on Themistocles, 64, 120, 121,
128; view of Pericles, 115,
116, 121, 127 sq., 132 sqq.;
on Cleon, 118,123; on Nicias,
118 sq.; oi Alcibiades, 120,
127 sq.; on Antiphon, 120
sq.; on Hermocrates, 121; on
Theramenes, ib.; on Hyperbolus, 121 sqq.; comparison
of Athens and Sparta, 116
influence of; on historiography,
148 sq., 1.50; on Philistus,
159 sq.; imitators of, 150;
canonized, 151; continuations
of his work, 152, 154; compared with Cratippus, 157;
compared with Polybius,
209 sqq.
Tiberius, Emperor, 231
Timaeus, 167 sqq.; popularity of,
172; antiquarianism, 188;
studies by Polybius, 193, 194,
195, 198, 209, 211, 217;
influence on Sallust, 226
Trajan, history of Dacian war,
176
Trasimene, battle of, 227
Trogus. See Pompeius Trogus