Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry

I 1. Introduction 2. Could Thucydides have known Pindar, and did he? 3. Content and outlook 4. Myths, religion, women, colonization 5. People, places, prosopography, and politics II. THUCYDIDES PINDARICUS 6. Introduction to Part II 7. The clearest example of Thucydides Pindaricus: 5.49-50, the Olympic Games of 420 BC 8. Statements of method causation 9. 'Antiquarian' excursions 10. Speeches 11. Narrative 12. Thucydides and Pindar: a stylistic comparison Conclusion