Thucydides Narrative And Explanation
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Thucydides Narrative And Explanation
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Author : Tim Rood
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2004-08-05
Thucydides Narrative And Explanation written by Tim Rood and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-05 with categories.
`War is a harsh teache' wrote Thucydides in the fifth-century BC. Rood analyses the techniques through which Thucydides' narrative explains the origin and course of the Peloponnesian War and exposes harsh truths about how individuals and states behave. Rood concentrates on how the use of techniques, such as selectivity, interaction of speech and narrative, and manipulation of time and perspective, points at one level to general human constraints, at another to the self-destructiveness of Athens' imperial power. The book explores some techniques that have received little attention and offers new ways of reading others; it gives new insight into Thucydides' sophistication and the way he relates to his predecessors. It is also important for its attempts to refute views that Thucydides' History is made up of different compositional strata or inspired by pro-Athenian bias. And it addresses directly the way modern historians use Thucydides, contributes to the contemporary debate over narrative history, and shows the value of applying some of the concepts of recent narrative theory to historical texts.
Thucydides War Narrative
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Author : Carolyn Dewald
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006-02-12
Thucydides War Narrative written by Carolyn Dewald and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-12 with History categories.
As a sustained analysis of the connections between narrative structure and meaning in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Carolyn Dewald's study revolves around a curious aspect of Thucydides' work: the first ten years of the war's history are formed on principles quite different from those shaping the years that follow. Although aspects of this change in style have been recognized in previous scholarship, Dewald has rigorously analyzed how its various elements are structured, used, and related to each other. Her study argues that these changes in style and organization reflect how Thucydides' own understanding of the war changed over time. Throughout, however, the History's narrative structure bears witness to Thucydides' dialogic efforts to depict the complexities of rational choice and behavior on the part of the war's combatants, as well as his own authorial interest in accuracy of representation. In her introduction and conclusion, Dewald explores some ways in which details of style and narrative structure are central to the larger theoretical issue of history's ability to meaningfully represent the past. She also surveys changes in historiography in the past quarter-century and considers how Thucydidean scholarship has reflected and responded to larger cultural trends.
Narrators Narratees And Narratives In Ancient Greek Literature
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Author : Irene J. F. De Jong
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2004
Narrators Narratees And Narratives In Ancient Greek Literature written by Irene J. F. De Jong and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first part of a new narratological history of Greek literature, which deals with the definition and boundaries of narrative and the role of narrators and narratees.
The Historical Present In Thucydides Semantics And Narrative Function
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Author : Jean Lallot
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-03-21
The Historical Present In Thucydides Semantics And Narrative Function written by Jean Lallot and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
After Etudes sur l’aspect verbal chez Platon (Saint-Etienne, 2000), the international ‘Groupe de recherche sur l’aspect verbal en grec’ now presents a second volume on verbal aspect in (Ancient) Greek, which is devoted to the function(s) of the Historical Present in Thucydides. In nine chapters the authors approach this subject from a variety of angles, focusing inter alia on the HP of particular verbs and on its use in battle narratives, or investigate Thucydides’ use of the HP from a comparative perspective. They share one important assumption, viz. that the primary function of the HP is to mark events that were, according to Thucydides, of decisive importance for the development of the Peloponnesian War. By its rich and detailed analyses the book provides important new insights into Thucydides’ narrative technique.
Thucydides Pericles And The Idea Of Athens In The Peloponnesian War
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Author : Martha Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-26
Thucydides Pericles And The Idea Of Athens In The Peloponnesian War written by Martha Taylor and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-26 with History categories.
Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War is the first comprehensive study of Thucydides' presentation of Pericles' radical redefinition of the city of Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Martha Taylor argues that Thucydides subtly critiques Pericles' vision of Athens as a city divorced from the territory of Attica and focused, instead, on the sea and the empire. Thucydides shows that Pericles' reconceputalization of the city led the Athenians both to Melos and to Sicily. Toward the end of his work, Thucydides demonstrates that flexible thinking about the city exacerbated the Athenians' civil war. Providing a thorough critique and analysis of Thucydides' neglected book 8, Taylor shows that Thucydides praises political compromise centered around the traditional city in Attica. In doing so, he implicitly censures both Pericles and the Athenian imperial project itself.
The Landmark Thucydides
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Author : Thucydides
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-04
The Landmark Thucydides written by Thucydides and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04 with History categories.
Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.
Thucydides Pericles And Periclean Imperialism
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Author : Edith Foster
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-05-31
Thucydides Pericles And Periclean Imperialism written by Edith Foster and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-31 with History categories.
Edith Foster compares Thucydides' narrative explanations and descriptions of the Peloponnesian War in Books One and Two of the History with the arguments about warfare and war materials offered by the Athenian statesman Pericles in those same books. In Thucydides' narrative presentations, she argues, the aggressive deployment of armed force is frequently unproductive or counterproductive, and even the threat to use armed force against others causes consequences that can be impossible for the aggressor to predict or contain. By contrast, Pericles' speeches demonstrate that he shared with many other figures in the History a mistaken confidence in the power, glory, and reliability of warfare and the instruments of force. Foster argues that Pericles does not speak for Thucydides, and that Thucydides should not be associated with Pericles' intransigent imperialism.
Redeeming Thucydides Book Viii
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Author : Vasileios Liotsakis
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-06-12
Redeeming Thucydides Book Viii written by Vasileios Liotsakis and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Since antiquity, Book 8 of Thucydides’ History has been considered an unpolished draft which lacks revision. Even those who admit that the book has some elements of internal coherence believe that Thucydides, if death had not prevented him, would have improved many chapters or even the whole structure of the book. Consequently, while the first seven books of the History have been well examined through the last two centuries, the narrative plan of Book 8 remains an obscure subject, as we do not possess an extensive and detailed presentation of its whole narrative design. Vasileios Liotsakis tries to satisfy this central desideratum of the Thucydidean scholarship by offering a thorough description of the compositional plan, which, in his opinion, Thucydides put into effect in the last 109 chapters of his work. His study elaborates on the structural parts of the book, their details, and the various techniques through which Thucydides composed his narration in order to reach the internal cohesion of these chapters as well as their close connection to the rest of the History. Liotsakis offers us an original approach not only of Book 8 but also of the whole work, since his observations reshape our overall view of the History.
Thucydides And Herodotus
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Author : Edith Foster
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-05-03
Thucydides And Herodotus written by Edith Foster and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-03 with History categories.
Thucydides and Herodotus is an edited collection which looks at two of the most important ancient Greek historians living in the 5th Century BCE. It examines the relevant relationship between them which is considered, especially nowadays, by historians and philologists to be more significant than previously realized.
Thucydides
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Author : Donald Kagan
language : en
Publisher: Viking Adult
Release Date : 2009
Thucydides written by Donald Kagan and has been published by Viking Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Kagan, one of the foremost classics scholars, illuminates the historian Thucydides and his greatest work, "The Peloponnesian War," both by examining him in the context of his time and by considering him as a revisionist historian.