Thucydides Narrative and Explanation

Name: Thucydides Narrative and Explanation
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ISBN: 9780199275854

ISBN-10: 0199275858

ISBN-13: 9780199275854

Edition: 2004

Authors: Tim Rood

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`War is a harsh teache' wrote Thucydides in the fifth-century BC. Rood analyses the techniques through which Thucydides' narrative explains the origin and course of the Peloponnesian War and exposes harsh truths about how individuals and states behave. Rood concentrates on how the use of techniques, such as selectivity, interaction of speech and narrative, and manipulation of time and perspective, points at one level to general human constraints, at another to the self-destructiveness of Athens' imperial power. The book explores some techniques that have received little attention and offers new ways of reading others; it gives new insight into Thucydides' sophistication and the way he…

Book details

List price: $93.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/7/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English




Interpreting Thucydides



Introduction : history and literature



The analysis of narrative : Pylos



Time, perceptions, knowledge



Perceptions : towards peace



Misreadings : book V



Temporal manipulation



Explaining defeat



Selectivity and omission : Athenian politics



Athens and Sicily



Nikias and Athens



Explaining war



Selectivity and omission : book I



The Pentekontaetia



Continuity and closure



Continuity : book VIII



Conclusion : the ends of history



Focalization and its (dis)contents