Thucydides and Herodotus

✍ Scribed by Edith Foster; Donald Lateiner

Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 413
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This edited collection looks at two of the most important ancient Greek historians living in the 5th Century BCE who are considered to be the founders of the western tradition of historiography. Thucydides and Herodotus examines the relevant relationship between these historians which is considered, especially nowadays, by historians and philologists to be more significant than previously realized.

The volume includes an introduction by the editors which addresses our changing view of how the historians relate to one another, and twelve papers written by leading experts in the field of ancient history and philology. Nine of the papers discuss either comprehensive issues pertaining to the historians' relationship or their common themes and practices, while three further papers discuss the ancient reception of Herodotus and Thucydides and investigate the historians' debt to Homer.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Methods of Reasoning
Structure and Meaning in Epic and Historiography
Thucydides as ‘Reader’ of Herodotus
Indirect Discourse in Herodotus and Thucydides
The ‘Rationality’ of Herodotus and Thucydides as Evidenced by Their Respective Use of Numbers
Common Themes
Herodotus and Thucydides on Blind Decisions Preceding Military Action
Oaths: Theory and Practice in the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides
Thermopylae and Pylos, with Reference to the Homeric Background
Thucydides on Themistocles: A Herodotean Narrator?
Persians in Thucydides
Reception
Aristotle’s Rhetoric, the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, and the Speeches in Herodotus and Thucydides
A Noble Alliance: Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon’s Procles
Herodotus and Thucydides in Roman Republican Historiography
Index Locorum
Index Nominum
Topic Index

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