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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.
Thucydides and Herodotus
by Foster, Edith; Lateiner, DonaldFormat: eBook
Pub. Date: 2012-05-04
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography
Edith Foster, Assistant Professor of History, Ashland University.,Donald Lateiner, John Wright Professor of Humanities & Classics, Ohio Wesleyan University.
Edith Foster is an Assistant Professor of History at Ashland University. She is the author of Thucydides, Pericles, and Periclean Imperialism (2010), of articles on Thucydides and Lucretius in the American Journal of Philology (2009) and in Sea of Languages: Complicating the History of Western Translation (forthcoming), and of numerous book reviews in BMCR, CPH, and Gnomon.
Donald Lateiner studies Greek historiography, ancient epic, and the ancient novels. He is the author of The Historical Method of Herodotus and Sardonic Smile: Nonverbal Behaviors in Homeric Epic. He has introduced and annotated translations of Herodotus and Thucydides. He teaches Greek, Latin, and folklore at Ohio Wesleyan University.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction, Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner
Comprehensive Questions
2. Structure and Meaning in Epic and Historiography., R.B. Rutherford
3. Thucydides as 'Reader' of Herodotus., Philip Stadter
4. Indirect Discourse in Herodotus and Thucydides., Carlo Scardino
5. The 'rationality' of Herodotus and Thucydides as Evidenced by their Respective Use of Numbers., Catherine Rubincam
Common Themes
6. Herodotus and Thucydides on Blind Decisions Preceding Military Action., NBH. P Stahl
7. Oaths: Theory and Practice in The Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides., Donald Lateiner
8. Thermopylae and Pylos, with Reference to the Homeric Background., Edith Foster
9. Thucydides on Themistocles: A Herodotean Narrator?, Wolfgang Blosel
10. Persians in Thucydides., Rosaria Munson
Reception
11. Aristotle s Rhetoric, The Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, and the Speeches in Herodotus and Thucydides., Christopher Pelling
12. A Noble Alliance: Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon s Procles., Emily Baragwanath
13. Herodotus and Thucydides in Roman Republican Historiography, Iris Samotta
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