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Thucydides and Herodotus
Edited by Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner
416 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-959326-2
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Hardback
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03 May 2012
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- Includes essays by leading scholars.
- Extensive chapter bibliographies for further research.
- Contains indepth discussions on the relationship and reception of Herodotus and Thucydides.
This edited collection looks at two of the most important ancient Greek historians living in the 5th Century BCE who are considered to be the founders of the western tradition of historiography. Thucydides and Herodotus examines the relevant relationship between these historians which is considered, especially nowadays, by historians and philologists to be more significant than previously realized.
The volume includes an introduction by the editors which addresses our changing view of how the historians relate to one another, and twelve papers written by leading experts in the field of ancient history
and philology. Nine of the papers discuss either comprehensive issues pertaining to the historians' relationship or their common themes and practices, while three further papers discuss the ancient reception of Herodotus and Thucydides and investigate the historians' debt to Homer.Readership: For scholars, graduate, and upper level undergraduate students interested in classics, ancient history, and ancient reception studies.
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Edited by Edith Foster, Assistant Professor of History, Ashland University., and Donald Lateiner, John Wright Professor of Humanities & Classics, Ohio Wesleyan University. Edith Foster is an Assistant Professor of History at Ashland University. She is the author of Thucydides, Pericles, and Periclean Imperialism (2010), of articles on Thucydides and Lucretius in the American Journal of Philology (2009) and in Sea of Languages: Complicating the History of Western Translation (forthcoming), and of numerous book reviews in BMCR, CPH, and Gnomon.
Donald Lateiner studies Greek historiography, ancient epic, and the ancient novels. He is the author of The Historical Method of Herodotus and Sardonic Smile: Nonverbal Behaviors in Homeric Epic. He has introduced and annotated translations of Herodotus and Thucydides. He teaches Greek, Latin, and folklore at Ohio Wesleyan University.
Contributors:
Edith Foster (Ashland University)
Donald Lateiner (Ohio Wesleyan University)
Philip Stadter (University of North Carolina)
Carlo Scardino (Universities of Basel and Freiburg)
Catherine Rubincam (University of Toronto)
H. P. Stahl (Univeristy of Pittsburgh)
Wolfgang Blösel (Heinrich Heine-University, Düsseldorf)
Rosaria Munson (Swarthmore College)
Christopher Pelling (Oxford University)
Emily Baragwanath (University of North Carolina)
Iris Samotta (Independent scholar)
R. B. Rutherford (Oxford University)
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"a timely collection ... Foster and Lateiner can be congratulated for assembling a lucid series of discussions by both experienced and younger hands on the two historians' combined debt to epic, on shared themes and techniques, and on their reception by writers later in antiquity." - Tim Rood, Times Literary Supplement
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Acknowledgements
1: Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner: Introduction
Comprehensive Questions
2: R.B. Rutherford: Structure and Meaning in Epic and Historiography.
3: Philip Stadter: Thucydides as 'Reader' of Herodotus.
4: Carlo Scardino: Indirect Discourse in Herodotus and Thucydides.
5: Catherine Rubincam: The 'rationality' of Herodotus and Thucydides as Evidenced by their Respective Use of Numbers.
Common Themes
6: H. P Stahl: Herodotus and Thucydides on Blind Decisions Preceding Military Action.
7: Donald Lateiner: Oaths: Theory and Practice in The Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides.
8: Edith Foster: Thermopylae and Pylos, with Reference to the Homeric Background.
9: Wolfgang Blösel: Thucydides on Themistocles: A Herodotean Narrator?
10: Rosaria Munson: Persians in Thucydides.
Reception
11: Christopher Pelling: Aristotle s Rhetoric, The Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, and the Speeches in Herodotus and Thucydides.
12: Emily Baragwanath: A Noble Alliance: Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon s Procles.
13: Iris Samotta: Herodotus and Thucydides in Roman Republican Historiography
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