Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse

by Lang, Mabel; Rusten, Jeffrey S.; Hamilton, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780979971341
• ISBN10: 0979971349
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-31
• Publisher: Isd

Summary

Mabel Lang's long career as a scholar and teacher has given her a unique perspective on one of the most important authors in western literature. Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse brings together several of her most thoughtful papers on figures and issues including the 400, Cleon, and Alcibiades, and joins them with new material on narrative technique. The assembled papers are an important complement to Professor Lang's pathbreaking study of Herodotean narrative. Together with introductory essays by the volume's editors, these papers will enable students of historiography in general to obtain a better understanding of how Thucydides engaged his audience. Although they were written over many years, the papers share a consistency of insight that makes them continually relevant to all who endeavor to understand the literary art of Thucydides.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Mabel Lang on Thucydides	p. xiii
Narrative
Participial Motivation in Thucydides	p. 1
Narrative Inconsistencies Internal and External	p. 17
A Note on Ithome	p. 19
Kylonian Conspiracy	p. 27
Scapegoat Pausanias	p. 37
The Murder of Hipparchus	p. 49
Alcibiades vs. Phrynichus	p. 63
Narrative Structure and Historical Interpretation	p. 71
Thucydides and the Epidamnian Affair	p. 73
The Revolution of the 400	p. 79
Revolution of the 400: Chronology and Constitutions	p. 97
Discourse
Thucydidean Thought-Patterns	p. 111
Thucydidean Thought	p. 113
Thucydides as Speech-Writer	p. 117
Herodotean Inheritances and Adaptations	p. 127
Thucydides, First Person	p. 129
The Thucydidean Tetralogy (1.67-88)	p. 139
The Paired Speeches of the Corinthians (1.120-24) and Pericles (1.140-44) and the Stories They Enclose	p. 145
Necessary for Whom? Direct vs. Indirect Speeches in Thucydides	p. 151
Biographical Sketch	p. 197
Publications	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 213
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