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9780199275854

Thucydides Narrative and Explanation

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  • ISBN13:

    9780199275854

  • ISBN10:

    0199275858

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-10-07
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

This book analyzes the narrative technique of Thucydides, the historian of the war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC. It relates his shifting uses of various techniques to his explanatory aims, and shows how he narrates the progression of one war and at the same time exposes various truths about the human condition.

Author Biography


Tim Rood is Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations x
PART I INTERPRETING THUCYDIDES
1. Introduction: History and Literature
3(21)
2. The Analysis of Narrative: Pylos
24(37)
PART II TIME, PERCEPTIONS, KNOWLEDGE
3. Perceptions: Towards Peace
61(22)
4. Misreadings: Book V
83(26)
5. Temporal Manipulation
109(24)
PART III EXPLAINING DEFEAT
6. Selectivity and Omission: Athenian Politics
133(26)
7. Athens and Sicily
159(24)
8. Nikias and Athens
183(22)
PART IV EXPLAINING WAR
9. Selectivity and Omission: Book I
205(20)
10. The Pentekontaetia
225(26)
PART V CONTINUITY AND CLOSURE
11. Continuity: Book VIII
251(34)
12. Conclusion: The Ends of History
285(9)
Appendix: Focalization and its (Dis)contents 294(3)
References 297(16)
Index of Passages Cited 313(17)
General Index 330

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