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Zusatztext 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. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung A collection of seventeen essays by Simon Hornblower on the great fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides; other ancient Greek historians, notably Herodotus, also feature. Although most of the chapters have previously appeared in print, many have been extensively rewritten for this volume and all are provided with new prefaces. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
