Tim Rood

Thucydides

Narrative and Explanation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes the narrative technique of Thucydides, relating his shifting uses of various techniques to his explanatory aims, and showing how he narrates the progression of one war and at the same time exposes various truths about the human condition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 36g
• ISBN-13: 9780198152569
• ISBN-10: 0198152566
• Artikelnr.: 21297037

Inhaltsangabe

I. Interpreting Thucydides
1: Introduction: History and Literature
2: The Analysis of Narrative: Pylos
II. Time, Perception, Knowledge
3: Perceptions: Towards Peace
4: Misreadings: Book V
5: Temporal Manipulation
III. Explaining Defeat
6: Selectivity and Omission: Athenian Politics
7: Athens and Sicily
8: Nikias and Athens
IV. Explaining War
9: Selectivity and Omission: Book I
10: The Pentekontaetia
V. Continuity and Closure
11: Continuity: Book VIII
12: Conclusion: The Ends of History