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Thucydidean Themes is a collection of seventeen essays by Simon Hornblower on the great fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides; but other ancient Greek historians, notably Herodotus, also feature. The chapters are arranged thematically, in three main parts (general; discussions of particular sections of the History; Thucydides' reception). Although most have previously appeared in print, many have been extensively rewritten for this volume. All are provided with prefatory material which reviews recent work on the topic. Thucydidean Themes is intended both as a companion volume to the author's recently completed three-volume Commentary on Thucydides, and as a freestanding contribution to the study of Thucydides. Like the Commentary, the present volume exploits every available approach - historical, literary, rhetorical, onomastic, epigraphic, religious, philosophical, textual, and archaeological - while the specially written Introduction seeks to identify what is distinctively admirable about Thucydides' History.

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Author:   Simon Hornblower (Professor of Classics and Ancient History, All Souls College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.663kg
ISBN:  

9780199562336

ISBN 10:   0199562334
Pages:   436
Publication Date:   02 December 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

<br> All libraries in institutions where Thucydides is taught will want a copy of this work, and Thucydidean scholars will profit from owning their own copy. Aside from the wealth of insight and cogent interpretation that this volume contains, readers will find Hornblower on Thucydides a paragon of clear and elegant prose. --Bryn Mawr Classical Review<p><br>

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Simon Hornblower is Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History at University College London.

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