Thucydides Between History and Literature / / ed. by Antonis Tsakmakis, Melina Tamiolaki.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Classics and Near East Studies 2000-2014 (EN)
• MitwirkendeR: Allan, Rutger J.,; Allison, June,; Bakker, Mathieu de,; Christodoulou, Panos,; Debnar, Paula,; Demont, Paul,; Ferrario, Sarah Brown,; Grethlein, Jonas,; Lamari, Anna A.,; Miltsios, Nikos,; Nicolai, Roberto,; Pavlou, Maria,; Pontier, Pierre,; Pothou, Vassiliki,; Price, Jonathan J.,; Raaflaub, Kurt A.,; Rood, Tim,; Saïd, Suzanne,; Stahl, Hans-Peter,; Tamiolaki, Melina,; Themistokleous, Charalambos,; Tompkins, Daniel P.,; Tsakmakis, Antonis,; Węcowski, Marek,
• HerausgeberIn: Tamiolaki, Melina,; Tsakmakis, Antonis,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (532 p.) :; 6 Abb./ill.

This volume brings together scholars from various areas (history, philology, linguistics, history of political ideas) and attempts a fresh survey of current trends in the analysis of Thucydides' historical narrative. Individual contributions range from a general outlook of Thucydides' hist...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• I. Ideas of History
• Ktēma es aiei: Thucydides’ Concept of “Learning through History” and Its Realization in His Work
• Character Judgements in the Histories: their Function and Distribution
• Ascribing Motivation in Thucydides. Between Historical Research and Literary Representation
• The Causes of the Athenian Plague and Thucydides
• II. Representations of Time and Space
• The Presence of the Past in Thucydides
• The Cylon Conspiracy: Thucydides and the Uses of the Past
• Κατ᾽ ἔϑνη καὶ κατὰ πόλεις. From Catalogues to Archaeology
• In the Shadow of Pericles: Athens’ Samian Victory and the Organisation of the Pentekontaetia in Thucydides
• Transformation of Landscapes in Thucydides
• III. Thucydides and Politics
• “Reading” Athens: Foreign Perceptions of the Political Roles of Athenian Leaders in Thucydides
• Thucydides and the Masses
• Thucydides’ Pericles. Between Historical Reality and Literary Representation
• IV. Aspects of the Narrative
• The Balance of Power and Compositional Balance: Thucydides Book 1
• Blurring the Boundaries of Speech: Thucydides and Indirect Discourse
• Making Meaning: Cross-references and their Interpretation in Thucydides’ Sicilian Narrative
• The Dot on the ‘i’: Thucydidean Epilogues
• The Narrative Legacy of Thucydides: Polybius, Book I
• V. The Language of Thucydides
• The litotes of Thucydides
• History as Presence. Time, Tense and Narrative Modes in Thucydides
• Textual Structure and Modality in Thucydides’ Military Exhortations
• Attributive Discourse in the Speeches in Thucydides
• Difficult Statements in Thucydides
• The Language of Pericles
• List of Contributors
• Bibliography
• Index nominum et rerum
• Index locorum