The library of Thucydides

1. Homer 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations

   History of the Peloponnesian War

   book 1 · book 2

   2 citations

   as Homer has also shown, if he is sufficient authority for any one, and also, in [his account of] the transmission of the sceptre, he has mentioned that he

2. History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 1 authority 1 citation

   History of the Peloponnesian War

   book 7

   1 citation

   And so the winter ended, and the eighteenth year of this war, of which Thucydides wrote the history.

3. Hymn to Apollo Homer 1 authority 1 citation

   History of the Peloponnesian War

   book 3

   1 citation

   Homer shows most clearly that such was the case, in the following verses, taken from a hymn to Apollo.

Each of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.

History of the Peloponnesian War

Attic history · Epitaph on the tomb of Archedice at Lampsacus · Verse inscription on the altar of Apollo in the Pythian precinct · epic/traditional poetry on the Cyclopes and Laestrygones

5 works in the library quote Thucydides — 28 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through History (of the Peloponnesian War) 16 citations · Thucydides 12 citations

Hugo Grotius 23 citations · Dio Chrysostom 3 citations · Demosthenes 1 citation · Thucydides 1 citation

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Thucydides is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 14 authority · 6 neutral 20 citations · 22 passages

   ch. 9 · ch. 10 2 passages anchored here · ch. 11 · ch. 12 · ch. 14 · ch. 15 · ch. 20 3 passages anchored here · chapter xx.: on punishments. 2 passages anchored here

   and 8 more chapters

   ch. 27 · ch. 31 · ch. 33 · ch. 34 2 passages anchored here · ch. 41 2 passages anchored here · ch. 45 · ch. 47 · ch. 48

   Named as originating a key term used in the analysis.

   The moral power then of governing a state, which is called by Thucydides the civil power, is described as consisting of three parts which form the necessary substance of every state;

2. Orations Dio Chrysostom 2 authority · 1 neutral 3 citations

   oration 11 · oration 53 · oration 88

   Thucydides is named explicitly as the authority for the claim that the Sciritan company never existed.

   when they name the Sciritan company of the Lacedaemonians, which never existed, as Thucydides says, and the Athenians honor Harmodius and Aristogeiton most of all, as having freed the city and killed the tyrant.

3. The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) Hugo Grotius 1 authority · 2 neutral 3 citations · 5 passages

   ch. 9 · ch. 23 · letter ii 3 passages anchored here

   Cited merely to report his terminology.

   ” On the other hand Thucydides calls the land which in the division falls to no nation, ἀόριστος, that is, undefined, and undetermined by boundaries.

4. Against Theocrines Demosthenes 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages

   against theocrines 2 passages anchored here

   The decree proposed by Thucydides regarding the Aenians' contribution is reported as the object of Theocrines' (and previously Charinus's) pretextual indictments.

   For being harassed by the false and malicious charges of this man at the time when some of them were turning to Philip and others to Athens, and learning that the decree which Charinus had previously indicted had again been indicted as illegal,—the decree, that is, which Thucydides proposed and which had to do with their contribution;

5. History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 1 authority 1 citation

   book 7

   Thucydides explicitly names himself as the author chronicling this war at a formulaic year-marking point in the narrative, an identifiable self-citation of his own written work.

   And so the winter ended, and the eighteenth year of this war, of which Thucydides wrote the history.