'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 m…
'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 m…
Kinesis: The Ancient Depiction of Gesture, Motion, and Emotion analyzes the depiction of emotions, gestures, and nonverbal behaviors in ancient Greek and Roman texts, and considers the precise language depicting them. Individual contributors examine genres ranging from historiog…
Edith Foster compares Thucydides' narrative explanations and descriptions of the Peloponnesian War in Books One and Two of the History.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
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 pres…