New translations of Thucydides added to Perseus

New translations of Thucydides added

Gregory Crane

Under our new Perseus the Next Thirty Years NEH grant, we have added a set of new translations for Thucydides, including translations in English, French, German, Italian and Latin. These are now available on Github and (with the exception of two German translations of part of Thucydides) can now be viewed in the Scaife Viewer. The opening books of Thucydides in the Zevort translation have been available. We now have the complete translation.

• Thucydides. Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése. Zévort, Marie Charles, translator. Paris: Charpentier, 1852.
• Thucydides. Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése. Bétant, Élie-Ami, translator. Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette, 1863.
• Thucydides with an English translation. Smith, Charles Foster, translator. London and Cambridge, MA: Heinemann and Harvard University Press, 1919-1923.
• The history of the Peloponnesian War. Dale, Henry, translator. London: Heinemann and Henry G. Bohn, 1851.
• Historia Belli Peloponnesiaci. Haase, Friedrich, translator. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1869.
• Vier Staatsreden aus Thucydides in deutscher Übersetzung. Gürsching, Heinrich, translator. Augsburg: Wirth, 1856.
• Die Rede des Perikles für die Gefallenen. Binding, Rudolf G., translator. Mainz-Kastel: Hanns Marxen, 1937.
• Della storia di Tucidide volgarizzata libri otto. Translator not named, translator. Florence: Tipografia Galileiana, 1835.

These are in addition to translations that have been available in Perseus for many years.

• Thucydides. The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Hobbes, Thomas. translator. London: John Bohn, 1843.
• Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Crawley, Richard, translator. London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1914.
• Thucydides. Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs. Wahrmund, Adolf, translator. Stuttgart: Krais and Hoffmann, 1864.
• Thucydides. Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs. Braun, Theodor, translator. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1917.

More Thucydides materials should appear in the coming months.

by Gregory Crane Posted on August 7, 2023