Thucydides and the shaping of history / Emily Greenwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenwood, Emily, author.

Series:

Classical literature and society.

Classical Literature and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--Greece.

Historiography.

Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C--Historiography.

Greece.

Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.

Thucydides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thucydides' work was one of the most exciting creations in the cultural history of Greece in the fifth century BC - one of only two monumental prose works to have survived - and it still poses fresh and challenging questions about the writing of history. In the twenty-first century, it still challenges the reader: there is a marked tension in Thucydides' History between his aim to write about contemporary events and his desire that his work should outlast the period in which he composed it. Thucydides and the Shaping of History addresses two important issues: how contemporary was the History w

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Editor's Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Whose Contemporary?; 2. Point of View and Vantage Point; 3. Temporal and Spatial Perspectives; 4. Speaking the Truth; 5. New Theatres of War: Book 8 and Sophocles' Philoctetes; 6. Reading Thucydides with Lucian; Notes; Appendices; 1. Timeline; 2. Structure of the History; 3. Maps; Bibliography; Index of Passages; A; D; G; H; L; P; S; T; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 20, 2015).

ISBN:

9781472502445

1472502442

9781472502438

1472502434

OCLC:

903442524