Reading Thucydides

Reading Thucydides / James V. Morrison.

"In Reading Thucydides, James V. Morrison proposes a "hybrid" reception model, arguing that Thucydides' History may be regarded as a pivotal work that seeks to recreate the earlier world of spoken argument, yet it does so as a text that may be read and reread - and heard and hear...

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Main Author: Morrison, James V., 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Thucydides. > History of the Peloponnesian War.
Thucydides.
Thukydides; Ho polemos tōn Peloponnēsiōn kai Athēnaiōn.
Thucydide. > "Guerre du Péloponnèse"
Thucydides, > 460-ca. 395 v. Chr.
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
431-404 B.C
Historiography.
Geschiedschrijving.
Verteltheorie.
18.43 ancient Greek literature.
Greece > History > Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. > Historiography.
Greece.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • In dialogue with Thucydides
  • The reader's task
  • The Corcyrean conflict (1.24-55)
  • Punctuated history : the case of Plataea
  • Historical lessons in the Melian episode
  • The comparison of cities and individuals
  • Maxims and assimilation in the Mytilenian debate
  • Athens the tyrant-city and the function of political metaphor
  • Thucydides' life and work
  • Ancient and modern audiences.

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