Thucydidean Themes

Zusatztext all libraries in institutions where Thucydides is taught will want a copy of this work, and Thucydidean scholars will profit from owning their own copy ... Aside from the wealth of insight and cogent interpretation that this volume contains, readers will find Hornblower on Thucydides a paragon of clear and elegant prose. Klappentext A collection of seventeen essays by Simon Hornblower on the great fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides; other ancient Greek historians, notably Herodotus, also feature. Although most of the chapters have previously appeared in print, many have been extensively rewritten for this volume and all are provided with new prefaces. Zusammenfassung Thucydidean Themes is a collection of seventeen essays by Simon Hornblower on the great fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides; but other ancient Greek historians, notably Herodotus, also feature. The chapters are arranged thematically, in three main parts (general; discussions of particular sections of the History; Thucydides' reception). Although most have previously appeared in print, many have been extensively rewritten for this volume. All are provided with prefatory material which reviews recent work on the topic. Thucydidean Themes is intended both as a companion volume to the author's recently completed three-volume Commentary on Thucydides, and as a freestanding contribution to the study of Thucydides. Like the Commentary, the present volume exploits every available approach - historical, literary, rhetorical, onomastic, epigraphic, religious, philosophical, textual, and archaeological - while the specially written Introduction seeks to identify what is distinctively admirable about Thucydides' History.

Klappentext
A collection of seventeen essays by Simon Hornblower on the great fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides; other ancient Greek historians, notably Herodotus, also feature. Although most of the chapters have previously appeared in print, many have been extensively rewritten for this volume and all are provided with new prefaces.

Zusammenfassung
Thucydidean Themes is a collection of seventeen essays by Simon Hornblower on the great fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides; but other ancient Greek historians, notably Herodotus, also feature. The chapters are arranged thematically, in three main parts (general; discussions of particular sections of the History; Thucydides' reception). Although most have previously appeared in print, many have been extensively rewritten for this volume. All are provided with prefatory material which reviews recent work on the topic. Thucydidean Themes is intended both as a companion volume to the author's recently completed three-volume Commentary on Thucydides, and as a freestanding contribution to the study of Thucydides. Like the Commentary, the present volume exploits every available approach - historical, literary, rhetorical, onomastic, epigraphic, religious, philosophical, textual, and archaeological - while the specially written Introduction seeks to identify what is distinctively admirable about Thucydides' History.

Inhalt
I. GENERAL; 1. The Religious Dimension to the Peloponnesian War, Or, What Thucydides Does Not Tell Us; 2. Thucydides and the Delphic Amphiktiony; 3. Narratology and Narrative Techniques in Thucydides; 4. Personal Names and the Greek Historians; 5. Thucydides on Boiotia and the Boiotians; 6. Thucydides and the Argives; II. MORE SPECIFIC (ARRANGED BY MAIN RELEVANT THUCYDIDEAN BOOK); 7. Thucydides and Plataian Perjury; 8. Thucydides, the Panionian Festival, and the Ephesia (3.104); 9. Thucydides and 'Chalkidic' Torone (4.110.1); 10. Thucydides, Xenophon and Lichas: Were the Spartans Excluded from the Olympic Games from 420-400 BC?; 11. Lichas Kalos Samios; 12. 'This was decided' (edoxe tauta): The Army as polis in Xenophon's Anabasis - and Elsewhere; 13. Sticks, Stones and Spartans: The Sociology of Spartan Violence; III. RECEPTION; 14. Thucydides' Awareness of Herodotus, Or Herodotus' Awareness of Thucydides?; 15. The Fourth-Century and Hellenistic Reception of Thucydides; 16. The Old Oligarch and Thucydides: A Fourth-Century Date for the Old Oligarch?; 17. Thucydides and Clarendon's History of the Rebellion

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