Thucydides and Herodotus

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-959326-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 414 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 638 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foster, Edith

Lateiner, Donald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements

- 1: Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner: Introduction

- Comprehensive Questions

- 2: R.B. Rutherford: Structure and Meaning in Epic and Historiography.

- 3: Philip Stadter: Thucydides as 'Reader' of Herodotus.

- 4: Carlo Scardino: Indirect Discourse in Herodotus and Thucydides.

- 5: Catherine Rubincam: The 'rationality' of Herodotus and Thucydides as Evidenced by their Respective Use of Numbers.

- Common Themes

- 6:  H. P Stahl: Herodotus and Thucydides on Blind Decisions Preceding Military Action.

- 7: Donald Lateiner: Oaths: Theory and Practice in The Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides.

- 8: Edith Foster: Thermopylae and Pylos, with Reference to the Homeric Background.

- 9: Wolfgang Blösel: Thucydides on Themistocles: A Herodotean Narrator?

- 10: Rosaria Munson: Persians in Thucydides.

- Reception

- 11: Christopher Pelling: Aristotle s Rhetoric, The Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, and the Speeches in Herodotus and Thucydides.

- 12: Emily Baragwanath: A Noble Alliance: Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon s Procles.

- 13: Iris Samotta: Herodotus and Thucydides in Roman Republican Historiography

Über Autor(innen)

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.