"This book of Thucydidean scholarship demonstrates that international law existed in systematic form in classical Greece. Apart from comprising a philological analysis of some pivotal aspects of the history of the Peloponnesian War, the author argues that the work of Thucydides has greatly influenced contemporary international law and politics"--.

• Contents
• Preface
• 1 Thucydidean Political Realism
  • Athenian Great Power and Imperialism
  • Hegemonic War: Similarities between the Peloponnesian War and the Cold War
  • Theory of Foreign Policy
  • International Law and Ethics in World Politics
• 2 Grounds of Lawful War in Classical Greek International Law and Causes of War in Thucydides
• 3 Origins of Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflict in Thucydides
• 4 Law of Treaties
• 5.1 Personalities in Thucydides
  • Alcibiades
• 5.2 The Funeral Oration of Pericles
• 6 Political Intelligence in the War of the Lacedaemonians and the Athenians
• 7.1 Strategy in the Peloponnesian War and Modern International Politics
• 7.2 The Grand Strategy of Sparta
• 8 Greek Religion in the Politics of the Peloponnesian War
  • Phenomena of Nature
  • Ethics and Religion
  • Oracles and Thucydides
• 9 Metaphysics in the History of Thucydides and Herodotus
  • Supranatural Interferences In Herodotus
  • Oaths in Thucydides and Herodotus
• Epilogue
• Appendix I
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author