This chapter reflects on the challenges of translating Thucydides into English. The discussion, which is informed by the author’s own experience of producing a translation of the History, offers some general observations on the translation process, but it focuses on the specific problems raised by Thucydides’ text. Issues considered include genre (including the question of the work’s title), structure and, above all, the stylistic complexity of the work: the compression of Thucydides’ language and the range of different voices in the text. The problem of cultural distance, and how (and to what extent) this can or should be reflected in translation, is also addressed.