Screen LibraryThe Cambridge companion to Thucydides /
"Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted from 431 to 404 BC, and is a masterp...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted from 431 to 404 BC, and is a masterpiece of narrative art and of political analysis. The twenty chapters in this Companion offer a wide range of perspectives on different aspects of the text, its interpretation and its significance. The nature of the text is explored in detail, and problems of Thucydides' historical and literary methodology are examined. Other chapters analyse the ways in which Thucydides' work illuminates, or complicates, our understanding of key historical questions for this period, above all those relating to the nature and conduct of war, politics, and empire. Finally, the book also explores the continuing legacy of Thucydides, from antiquity to the present day"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 382 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-363) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9781107514607 1107514606 9781107107052 1107107059 |
| Index Number: | DF229 |
| CLC: | K125 |
| Call Number: | K125/C178-1 |
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Introduction / Establishing a new genre : Thucydides and non-historiographic memory / Thucydidean self-presentation / Thucydides' use of evidence and sources / Rhetorical history : speeches in Thucydides / Prolegomena to the Peloponnesian War : Thucydides Book 1 / Time and foresight in Thucydides / Labouring for truth in Thucydides / Thucydides and war / Thucydides on empire and imperialism / Ethnicity in Thucydides / Thucydides and leadership / Thucydides on democracy and the others / Justice and morality in Thucydides / Thucydides in Greek and Roman historiography / Thucydides in Byzantium / Thucydides in the Renaissance and Reformation / Narrative of Thucydides and the nineteenth-century discipline of (ancient) history / 'What really happened' : varieties of realism in Thucydides' history / Translating Thucydides / |