Cawkwell's comprehensive analysis of Thucydides and his historical writings is persuasive, erudite and is an immensely valuable addition to the scholarship and criticism of a rich and popular period of Greek history.
A difficult and specialized work that criticizes what Thucydides didn't include, such as Athenian overtures to Persia. Almost, forgetting the work incomplete. For grad seminars and not the general reader.