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Divided into four sections--History, Historiography, Political Theory, and Context and Reception--
The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides provides a comprehensive introduction to Thucydides' ideas and their ancient influence. It bridges traditionally divided disciplines, and offers both solid explanation and innovative approaches.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- Section I: Thucydides as Historian
- 01 Thucydides' Historical Method
- Sara Forsdyke
- 02 Thucydides on Early Greek History
- Hans van Wees
- 03 The Pentecontaetia
- Lisa Kallet
- 04 Military Malaise and a Hobbled Hegemony: Sparta and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian
- League in Thucydides' History
- Ellen Millender
- 05 Thucydides on the Athenian Empire and Interstate Relations
- Polly Low
- 06 Thucydides on the Causes and Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
- Eric Robinson
- 07 Thucydides on the First Ten Years of War (Archidamian War)
- Peter Hunt
- 08 Mantinea, Decelea and the Interwar Years (421-413 BCE)
- Cinzia Bearzot
- 09 Thucydides on the Sicilian Expedition
- Emily Greenwood
- 10 Thucydides on the Four Hundred and the Fall of Athens
- Andrew Wolpert
- Section II: Thucydidean Historiography
- 11. Writing History Implicitly through Refined Structuring
- Hunter Rawlings
- 12. Scale Matters: Compression, Expansion, and Vividness in Thucydides
- W. R. Connor
- 13. The Tree, the Funnel, and the Diptych: Some Patterns in Thucydides' Longest Sentences
- Jeffrey Rusten
- 14. Authorial Comments in Thucydides
- Matthieu de Bakker
- 15. Thucydides and Myth: A Complex Relation to Past and Present
- Rosaria Munson
- 16. Speeches
- Antonis Tsakmakis
- 17. Characterization of Individuals in Thucydides' History
- Philip Stadter
- 18. Campaign and Battle Narratives in Thucydides
- Edith Foster
- Section III: Thucydides and Political Theory
- 19. Was Thucydides a Political Philosopher?
- Ryan Balot
- 20. Kinêsis, Navies and the Power Trap in Thucydides
- Arlene Saxonhouse
- 21. Thucydides on Nature and Human Conduct
- Clifford Orwin
- 22. Thucydides and the Politics of Necessity
- Kinch Hoekstra and Mark Fisher
- 23. The Regime (Politeia) in Thucydides
- Seth Jaffe
- 24. STASIS in the War Narrative
- Michael Palmer
- 25. Religion, Politics, and Piety
- Paul Rahe
- 26. Thucydides on the Political Passions
- Victoria Wohl
- 27. Leaders and Leadership in Thucydides' History
- Mary P. Nichols
- 28. Thucydides and Crowds
- John Zumbrunnen
- 29. Thucydides, International Law, and International Anarchy
- Arthur Eckstein
- 30. Xenophon as a Socratic Reader of Thucydides
- Paul Ludwig
- 31. Political Philosophy in an Unstable World: Comparing Thucydides and Plato on the
- Possibilities of Politics
- Gerald Mara
- Section IV: Contexts and Ancient Reception of Thucydidean Historiography
- 32. Thucydides' Predecessors and Contemporaries in Historical Poetry and Prose
- Leone Porciani
- 33. Thucydides and His Intellectual Milieu
- Rosalind Thomas
- 34. Thucydides, Epic, and Tragedy
- Tobias Joho
- 35. Thucydides and Attic Comedy
- Jeffrey Henderson
- 36. Thucydides and his Continuators
- Vivienne Gray
- 37. History, Rhetoric, and Truth: Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Thucydides
- Casper de Jonge
- 38. Polybius and Sallust
- Nicolas Wiater
- 39. Writing with Posterity in Mind: Thucydides and Tacitus on Secession
- Cynthia Damon
- 40. Thucydides, Procopius, and the Historians of the Later Roman Empire
- Conor Whately
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Sara Forsdyke is Professor of Classical Studies and History, University of Michigan.
Edith Foster is Senior Research Associate, Case Western University and Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Strasbourg.
Ryan Balot is Professor of Political Science and Classics, University of Toronto.
Zusammenfassung
The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides contains newly commissioned essays on Thucydides as an historian, thinker, and writer. It also features chapters on Thucydides' intellectual context and ancient reception. The creative juxtaposition of historical, literary, philosophical, and reception studies allows for a better grasp of Thucydides' complex project and its intellectual context, while at the same time providing a comprehensive introduction to the author's ideas. The volume is organized into four sections of papers: History, Historiography, Political Theory, and Context and Reception. It therefore bridges traditionally divided disciplines. The authors engaged to write the forty chapters for this volume include both well-known scholars and less well-known innovators, who bring fresh ideas and new points of view. Articles avoid technical jargon and long footnotes, and are written in an accessible style. Finally, the volume includes a thorough introduction prefacing each paper, as well as several maps and an up-to-date bibliography that will enable further study. The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides offers a comprehensive introduction to a thinker and writer whose simultaneous depth and innovativeness have been the focus of intense literary and philosophical study since ancient times.
Zusatztext
There is much to admire about this volume. First of all, it includes the different (although sometimes overlapping) disciplines of ancient history, classics, and political theory, all of which have significantly different approaches to the same material ... the chapters do a thorough job of synthesizing decades of research into bite-size accessible units that both present the fundamental arguments for a beginner and offer new perspectives for the scholar ... It is an extremely impressive volume with a great deal to offer for both the undergraduate and the scholar alike.
