Thucydides, the patron saint of realpolitik, continues to be read in many fields outside of classics. Why did his History succeed in setting the pattern for future scholars where Herodotus's earlier Histories failed? In this fascinating study of the construction of intellectual …
Thucydides, the patron saint of realpolitik, continues to be read in many fields outside of classics. Why did his History succeed in setting the pattern for future scholars where Herodotus's earlier Histories failed? In this fascinating study of the construction of intellectual …
"Speaking the Same Language recovers the role played by the audiences of debates in Thucydides' account of the war. By restoring these audiences to a more prominent position, Debnar emphasizes the perspective of the participants in the war and heightens the dramatic immediacy of…
"Speaking the Same Language recovers the role played by the audiences of debates in Thucydides' account of the war. By restoring these audiences to a more prominent position, Debnar emphasizes the perspective of the participants in the war and heightens the dramatic immediacy of…
This text analyses the narrative technique of Thucydides, the historian of the war between Athens and Sparta in the 5th century BC, and exposes harsh truths about how individuals and states behave.
"The scraps of hard evidence are carefully shifted from the putative so as to uncover the probable extent and nature of interpolation in Thucydides. This gives a coarse but firm 'typology, ' which may be of some use in the study of other MS traditions, and clarifies hard passage…
Thucydides on war and national character
"In this book, Robert D. Luginbill explores Thucydides' concept of national character and its relation to humankind's tendency toward war. He investigates Thucydides' theories on personal and national behavior in times of stress, with an eye for the lessons to be learned in mode…
Thucydides on war and national character
"In this book, Robert D. Luginbill explores Thucydides' concept of national character and its relation to humankind's tendency toward war. He investigates Thucydides' theories on personal and national behavior in times of stress, with an eye for the lessons to be learned in mode…
Thucydides on war and national character
Brill's companion to Hesiod
by Rengakos, Antonios, Tsagalis, Christos, Montanari, Franco
