Past and Process in Herodotus and Thucydides /

Past and Process in Herodotus and Thucydides / / Virginia J. Hunter.

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 h...

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Hunter, Virginia J.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©1982
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 5090
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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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