Thucydides and Herodotus

by Foster, Edith, (Foster, Edith Marie) Lateiner, Donald

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Title Statements

Full title :Thucydides and Herodotus / edited by Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 399 s. ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199593262, 0199593264
oclc:ocn810879672
LC Classification:DF211
Dewey Decimal:938.007202

Introduction / Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner -- Structure and meaning in epic and historiography / Richard B. Rutherford -- Thucydides as reader of Herodotus / Philip A. Stadter -- Indirect discourse in Herodotus and Thucydides / Carlo Scardino -- The rationality of Herodotus and Thucydides as evidenced by their respective use of numbers / Catherine Rubicam -- Herodotus and Thucydides on blind decisions preceding military action / Hans-Peter Stahl -- Oaths : theory and practice in the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides / Donald Lateiner -- Thermopylae and Pylos, with reference to the Homeric background / Edith Foster -- Thucydides on Themistocles : a Herodotean narrator? / Wolfgang Blösel -- Persians in Thucydides / Rosaria Vignolo Munson -- Aristotle's Rhetoric, the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, and the speeches in Herodotus and Thucydides / Christopher Pelling -- A noble alliance : Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon's Procles / Emily Baragwanath -- Herodotus and Thucydides in Roman Republican historiography / Iris Samotta