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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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner
- Structure and meaning in epic and historiography / Richard B. Rutherford
- Thucydides as reader of Herodotus / Philip A. Stadter
- Indirect discourse in Herodotus and Thucydides / Carlo Scardino
- The rationality of Herodotus and Thucydides as evidenced by their respective use of numbers / Catherine Rubicam
- Herodotus and Thucydides on blind decisions preceding military action / Hans-Peter Stahl
- Oaths : theory and practice in the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides / Donald Lateiner
- Thermopylae and Pylos, with reference to the Homeric background / Edith Foster
- Thucydides on Themistocles : a Herodotean narrator? / Wolfgang Blösel
- Persians in Thucydides / Rosaria Vignolo Munson
- Aristotle's Rhetoric, the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, and the speeches in Herodotus and Thucydides / Christopher Pelling
- A noble alliance : Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon's Procles / Emily Baragwanath
- Herodotus and Thucydides in Roman Republican historiography / Iris Samotta
- Introduction / Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner
- Structure and meaning in epic and historiography / Richard B. Rutherford
- Thucydides as reader of Herodotus / Philip A. Stadter
- Indirect discourse in Herodotus and Thucydides / Carlo Scardino
- The rationality of Herodotus and Thucydides as evidenced by their respective use of numbers / Catherine Rubicam
- Herodotus and Thucydides on blind decisions preceding military action / Hans-Peter Stahl
- Oaths : theory and practice in the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides / Donald Lateiner
- Thermopylae and Pylos, with reference to the Homeric background / Edith Foster
- Thucydides on Themistocles : a Herodotean narrator? / Wolfgang Blösel
- Persians in Thucydides / Rosaria Vignolo Munson
- Aristotle's Rhetoric, the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, and the speeches in Herodotus and Thucydides / Christopher Pelling
- A noble alliance : Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon's Procles / Emily Baragwanath
- Herodotus and Thucydides in Roman Republican historiography / Iris Samotta
- 1 Introduction / Donald Lateiner
- pt. I METHODS OF REASONING
- 2. Structure and Meaning in Epic and Historiography / Richard B. Rutherford
- 3. Thucydides as `Reader' of Herodotus / Philip A. Stadter
- 4. Indirect Discourse in Herodotus and Thucydides / Carlo Scardino
- 5. `Rationality' of Herodotus and Thucydides as Evidenced by Their Respective Use of Numbers / Catherine Rubincam
- pt. II COMMON THEMES
- 6. Herodotus and Thucydides on Blind Decisions Preceding Military Action / Hans-Peter 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 Vignolo Munson
- pt. III RECEPTION
- 11. Aristotle's Rhetoric, the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, and the Speeches in Herodotus and Thucydides / Christopher Pelling
- 12. Noble Alliance: Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon's Procles / Emily Baragwanath
- 13. Herodotus and Thucydides in Roman Republican Historiography / Iris Samotta.
- Introduction / Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner
- Structure and meaning in epic and historiography / Richard B. Rutherford
- Thucydides as reader of Herodotus / Philip A. Stadter
- Indirect discourse in Herodotus and Thucydides / Carlo Scardino
- The 'rationality' of Herodotus and Thucydides as evidenced by their respective use of numbers / Catherine Rubincam
- Herodotus and Thucydides on blind decisions preceding military action / Hans-Peter Stahl
- Oaths : theory and practice in the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides / Donald Lateiner
- Thermopylae and Pylos, with reference to the Homeric background / Edith Foster
- Thucydides on Themistocles : a Herodotean narrator? / Wolfgang Blösel
- Persians in Thucydides / Rosaria Vignolo Munson
- Aristotle's Rhetoric, the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, and the speeches in Herodotus and Thucydides / Christopher Pelling
- A noble alliance : Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon's Procles / Emily Baragwanath
- Herodotus and Thucydides in Roman Republican historiography / Iris Samotta