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|a Style and necessity in Thucydides /
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|a Ancient literary critics were struck by what they described as Thucydides' 'nominal style', a term that refers to Thucydides' fondness for abstract nominal phrases. As this book shows, Thucydides frequently uses theses phrases instead of approximately synonymous verbal and personal constructions. These stylistic choices tend to de-emphasize human agency: people find themselves in a passive role, exposed to incidents happening to them rather than being actively in charge of events. Thus, the analysis of the abstract style raises the question of necessity in Thucydides. On numerous occasions, Thucydides and his speakers use impersonal and passive language to stress the subjection of human beings to transpersonal forces that manifest themselves in collective passions and an inherent dynamic of events. These factors are constitutive of the human condition and become a substitute for the notion of divine fatalism prevalent in earlier Greek thought. Yet Thucydidean necessity is not absolute. It stands in the tradition of a type of fatalism that one finds in Homer and Herodotus. In these authors, the gods or fate tend to settle the outcome of the most significant events, but they leave leeway for the specific way in which these pivotal events come to pass. Thus, the Greeks endorsed a malleable variant of necessity, so that considerable scope for human choice persists within the framework fixed by necessity. Pericles turns out to be Thucydides' prime example of an individual who uses the leeway left by necessity for prudent interventions into the course of events.
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|a Introduction -- 0.1 Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Problem of Thucydides' Style -- 0.2 What Benefit Does Thucydides Derive from a Nominal Register-- 0.3 Two Contrary Strands in the History: Contingency vs. Necessity -- 0.4 Determinism 'up to a point' -- 1. Thucydides' Abstract Nominal Style: The Main Features and Differences from the Plain Style -- 1.1 Abstract Nominal Phrases in Ancient Greek -- 1.2 Four Stylistic Devices Used by Thucydides to Foster Abstraction -- 1.3 Corcyrean Stasis in Two Stylistic Registers -- 1.4 Conclusion -- 2. The Implications of Thucydides' Abstract Style: The Pathology (3.82-3) -- 2.1 Persons Treated as Things -- 2.2 Impersonal Agents -- 2.3 Reification of Action -- 2.4 Passivity and Settled States -- 2.5 Convulsions of 'Greekness' -- 2.6 Predominance of General Forces -- 2.7 Emphasis on Incidents Occurring as Opposed to People Acting -- 2.8 Phrases Involving πίπτω -- 2.9 Conclusion -- 3. The Passivity of the Powerful -- 3.1 The Thucydidean Standpoint: The Archaeology -- 3.2 Thucydides and His Speakers -- 3.3 Compulsion by 'The Three Greatest Things' -- 3.4 The Process of Imperial Growth in the Pentecontaetia -- 3.5 The Paradox of Empire: Power and Passivity -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4. A World Governed by Neuters: 'The Human' as a Substitute for 'The Divine' -- 4.1 The Mainsprings of Action: Natural Conditions and Impersonal Factors -- 4.2 Human Nature Personified -- 4.3 Collapsing the Duality Between Inner and Outer -- 4.4 Divine Visitation and Natural Drives: Affinities Between Euripides and Thucydides -- 4.5 The Juxtaposition of τὸ θεῖον and τὸ ἀνθρώπειον in the Melian Dialogue -- 4.6 Neuter Phrases Referring to Divine Powers in Herodotus and Euripides -- 4.7 Conclusion -- 5. Decision-Making Overshadowed by Necessity -- 5.1 The Outbreak of the War -- 5.2 Spartan Fear: A Passive Imposition -- 5.3 The Speech of the Spartan Ambassadors at Athens: Passivity of the Doers and the Margin of Choice -- 5.4 Victors and Losers After Pylos: An Unlikely Similarity -- 5.5 Athenian Desire for Sicily: A Force Beyond Human Control -- 5.6 National Character and Human Nature -- 5.7 Conclusion -- 6. Dual Motivation: The Interaction of Necessity and Individual Choice -- 6.1 The Decision in Favour of the Sicilian Expedition (I): the Paragon of Necessity -- 6.2 The Decision in Favour of the Sicilian Expedition (II): the Strand of Individualism -- 6.3 Croesus in Herodotus (I): Immanent Motivation Alongside Divine Interference -- 6.4 Croesus in Herodotus (II): Who Is αἴτιος-Man or God-- 6.5 Conclusion: Two Motivational Strands in Thucydides -- 7. Necessity and Leeway for Choice: Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides -- 7.1 Can Necessity Be Malleable-- 7.2 The Homecoming of Odysseus: Predestination with Blank Spots -- 7.3 Herodotus on Divine and Human Action in Relation to Fate: Apollo's Intervention and Croesus' Contribution -- 7.4 Causality Ancient and Modern: Interaction between Entities Versus Deterministic Laws of Nature -- 7.5 Causation of the Greatest Events: Necessity Intertwined with Contingency -- 7.6 Conclusion: Flexible Necessity -- 8. Pericles' Containment of Necessity and the Scope for Choice -- 8.1 The Athenians Exposed to Invasion and Plague: Human Nature on the Rise -- 8.2 Pericles Face to Face with Human Nature -- 8.3 Realization of the Periclean Ideal in Language -- 8.4 Restoring the Athenians' Power of Choice -- 8.5 The Power of Choice: An Ever-Imperiled Faculty -- 8.6 The Equivocalness of γνώμη -- 8.7 Conclusion: Intimations of Periclean Pessimism -- Conclusion: The Exception of Pericles and the Persistence of Necessity -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages -- Subject Index -- Greek Terms.
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