Thucydides and Herodotus /
Herodotus and His first successor Thucydides, the founders of the western tradition of historiography in the 5th century BC, experienced a fruitfully complicated relationship. Historians and philologists are only now realizing the depth and breadth of their agreements and disagreements over content,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Ancient Greek |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2012
Oxford, UK : 2012 Oxford, United Kingdom : 2012 |
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| Summary: | Herodotus and His first successor Thucydides, the founders of the western tradition of historiography in the 5th century BC, experienced a fruitfully complicated relationship. Historians and philologists are only now realizing the depth and breadth of their agreements and disagreements over content, method, and narrative strategies 'Thucydides and Herodotus' is an edited collection which looks at two of the most important ancient Greek historians living in the 5th century BCE. It examines the relevant relationship between them which is considered, especially nowadays, by historians and philologists to be more significant than previously realized In their introduction to the twelve papers, the editors engage with the on-going and lively debate concerning ancient, renaissance, and modern views of the two historians' relationship, and discuss the genesis of the long-enduring tendency to denigrate Herodotus by comparison with Thucydides. Book jacket This collection of essays examines their mutual debt to Homeric precedent (Rutherford), the mainly implicit debate over the nature of the remembered past (Munson, Blösel, Lateiner), the common and divergent structures of their monumental prose accounts (Stahl, Foster, Scardino), Thucydides' homage to and divergences from his unavoidable paradigm (Rubincam, Stadter), and the reception of their historiographical achievement by subsequent ancient writers, Greek and Roman (Baragwanath, Pelling, Samotta) |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 399 p. ; 23 cm xiv, 399 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 374-278) and indexes Includes bibliographical references (p. 374-378) and indexes Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-378) and indexes Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 0199593264 (acid-free paper) 0199593264 9780199593262 (acid-free paper) 9780199593262 |