Thucydides Between History and Literature

Thucydides Between History and Literature......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Antonis Tsakmakis / Melina Tamiolaki: Introduction......Page 10
I. Ideas of History......Page 18
Kurt A. Raaflaub: Ktēma es aiei: Thucydides’ Concept of “Learning through History” and Its Realization in His Work......Page 20
Mathieu de Bakker: Character Judgements in the Histories: their Function and Distribution......Page 40
1. Thucydides’ explicit character judgements......Page 42
2. The timing of Thucydides’ character judgements......Page 47
3. The character judgements in Book 8......Page 52
4. Conclusion......Page 57
1. Introduction......Page 58
2. Techniques of ascribing motivation: the un-Herodotean Thucydides......Page 64
3. Motivation in the speeches versus motivation in the narrative......Page 74
4. Reading each other’s motives......Page 81
5. Conclusion: towards a historicization of motives......Page 86
Paul Demont: The Causes of the Athenian Plague and Thucydides......Page 90
II. Representations of Time and Space......Page 106
1. From meaning to presence......Page 108
2. Phormion’s double victory (2.83 –92)......Page 111
3. The Capitulation of Mytilene (3.25– 35)......Page 120
4. Teleology and Authorial Presence......Page 127
5. The presence of the past in Thucydides and Plutarch......Page 131
Tim Rood: The Cylon Conspiracy: Thucydides and the Uses of the Past......Page 136
1. The two accounts......Page 137
2. Correction and propaganda?......Page 139
3. Complaint and Counter-Complaint......Page 142
4. Temporal and stylistic distancing......Page 144
5. Cylon’s oracle......Page 147
6. Back to Herodotus......Page 152
7. Space and Time......Page 153
1. Vertigo of the Catalogue (of the ships)......Page 156
2. The epic archaeology: Herodotus 1.1 –5......Page 159
3. The enlargement of the catalogue: Herodotus Book 7......Page 161
4. Thucydides’ illustrative and methodological archaelogy......Page 163
5. The (partial) comeback of the catalogue: the Sicilian Archaeology......Page 164
6. Models of proems in epic poetry and history......Page 166
Marek Węcowski: In the Shadow of Pericles: Athens’ Samian Victory and the Organisation of the Pentekontaetia in Thucydides......Page 170
2. Anthropogenic Transformation......Page 184
3. Stagnant Landscape......Page 186
5. Redirection of Flowing Water and Reorientation of People......Page 187
6. Self-transformation......Page 189
7. Dynamical Landscape......Page 190
8. Rationalistic Self-transformation......Page 191
9. Concluding Remarks......Page 194
III. Thucydides and Politics......Page 196
Introduction: Why “Read” Athens?......Page 198
1. First “Readings” of Athens in Book 1: The Corinthians and the Spartans......Page 199
2. Long Interest and Imperfect Knowledge: Spartan and Syracusan “Readings” of Athens......Page 202
3. Selective “Reading” and Practical Knowledge in Thucydides......Page 212
Suzanne Saïd: Thucydides and the Masses......Page 216
1. The vocabulary......Page 218
2. Democracy and the Masses......Page 221
3. Mass and Narrative......Page 228
Panos Christodoulou: Thucydides’ Pericles. Between Historical Reality and Literary Representation......Page 242
1. Stasis on Stage......Page 251
Pericles and the Athenians......Page 257
3. Exorcising stasis......Page 262
4. The leader at the service of the city......Page 265
5. The art of avoiding stasis......Page 267
IV. Aspects of the Narrative......Page 272
June Allison: The Balance of Power and Compositional Balance: Thucydides Book 1......Page 274
Paula Debnar: Blurring the Boundaries of Speech: Thucydides and Indirect Discourse......Page 288
1. Introduction......Page 304
2. Progressive cross-references......Page 306
3. Cross-References providing diverse focalization......Page 313
4. Encirclement cross-references......Page 317
5. Conclusion......Page 324
Hans-Peter Stahl: The Dot on the ‘i’: Thucydidean Epilogues......Page 326
Nikos Miltsios: The Narrative Legacy of Thucydides: Polybius, Book I......Page 346
1. Structural similarities and functional connections......Page 351
2. The presentation of the opposing sides......Page 354
V. The Language of Thucydides......Page 368
Pierre Pontier: The litotes of Thucydides......Page 370
1. The narrative modes......Page 388
2. Two diegetic modes: displaced and immediate......Page 390
3. Descriptive mode......Page 394
4. Discursive Mode......Page 401
5. Conclusion......Page 405
1. Military exhortations in Thucydides......Page 408
2. The position of military exhortation in the work’s macro-structure......Page 411
3. Modality......Page 417
4. Modality in Thucydides’ military exhortations......Page 419
1. Introduction......Page 426
2. The Settings’ “Anatomy”......Page 427
3. Attributive Discourse......Page 433
4. Examples......Page 441
5. Conclusion......Page 449
Jonathan J. Price: Difficult Statements in Thucydides......Page 452
1. Stylistic Differentiation......Page 464
2. Form and Content: l’homme même and the ξύμπασα γνώμη......Page 474
3. “Wie billig ist Reden, wirklich?”......Page 477
4. Conclusion......Page 480
List of Contributors......Page 482
Bibliography......Page 488
Index nominum et rerum......Page 522
Index locorum......Page 536