Past and Process in Herodotus and Thucydides

✍ Scribed by Virginia J. Hunter

Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 391
Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 5090
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This is the first systematic attempt to compare Herodotus and Thucydides as contemporaries, that is, as pre- Socratic thinkers who employed rather similar concepts and intellectual tools and who worked within the same theoretical framework or space. The work also brings to the study of the ancient historians widely accepted and recognizable concepts derived from contemporary historiography and the methodology of the social sciences.

Originally published in 1982.

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✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
PART I. The Past: Enquiry and Interpretation
ONE. Mankind's Progress to Civilization in Greece: Thucydides' Archaeology and the Problems of Power
TWO. The Discovery of “Historical Space”: Herodotus and the Beginnings of Human History in Egypt
THREE. Herodotus and Thucydides and le temps des hommes
PART II. The Process of History
FOUR. Generalization, Process, and Event: Thucydides' Explanation of Brasidas' Successes in Thrace
FIVE. Cause, Event, and Chronology in Relation to Process: Herodotus' Explanation of Dareios' Retreat from Scythia
Six. Historical Process and its Implications for Herodotus and Thucydides
APPENDIXES
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER ONE
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER TWO
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER FOUR
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER FIVE
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER SIX
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF REFERENCES TO HERODOTUS AND THUCYDIDES
GENERAL INDEX

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