Thucydides and the new written word Selection and the authority of the text; Thucydidean claims of authority; Thucydidean exclusions and the langauge of the polis I: women and kinship; Thucydidean exclusions and the langauge of the polis II: Oikos, Genos and Polis; Thucydidean inclusions and the langauge of the Polis: to suggenes and the appropriation of kinship; The politics of religious space; The rhetoric of austerity