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 inprint, many have been extensively rewritten for this volume and all are provided with new prefaces. INDICE: 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
- ISBN: 978-0-19-956233-6
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 440
- Fecha Publicación: 02/12/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés