Format:
Online-Ressource (201 p)
ISBN:
9780715632833
Series Statement:
Classical Literature and Society
Content:
Thucydides' work was one of the most exciting creations in the cultural history of Greece in the fifth century BC - one of only two monumental prose works to have survived - and it still poses fresh and challenging questions about the writing of history. In the twenty-first century, it still challenges the reader: there is a marked tension in Thucydides' History between his aim to write about contemporary events and his desire that his work should outlast the period in which he composed it. Thucydides and the Shaping of History addresses two important issues: how contemporary was the History w
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; Editor's Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Whose Contemporary?; 2. Point of View and Vantage Point; 3. Temporal and Spatial Perspectives; 4. Speaking the Truth; 5. New Theatres of War: Book 8 and Sophocles' Philoctetes; 6. Reading Thucydides with Lucian; Notes; Appendices; 1. Timeline; 2. Structure of the History; 3. Maps; Bibliography; Index of Passages; A; D; G; H; L; P; S; T; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Z
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472502438
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780715632833
Additional Edition:
Print version Thucydides and the Shaping of History
Language:
English
Keywords:
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