By Antonis Tsakmakis, Antonios Rengakos
This quantity on Thucydides, crucial historian of the traditional global, contains articles via thirty major overseas students. The contributions hide a variety of concerns, together with Thucydides' existence, highbrow milieu and predecessors, Thucydides and the act of writing, his rhetoric, ancient process and narrative ideas, narrative harmony within the heritage, the speeches, Thucydides' reliability as a historian, and his legacy in the course of the centuries. different issues handled contain battle, faith, contributors, democracy and oligarchy, the discovery of political technological know-how, Thucydides and Athens, Sparta, Macedonia/Thrace, Sicily/South Italy, Persia, and the Argives. the quantity goals to supply a survey of present developments in Thucydidean experiences so as to be of curiosity to all scholars of old background.
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The aristocratic families traced their lineage back to these heroes, and through them to the gods. 3 Thus the celebrated heroes of the Argonautic saga or the Trojan War, like Heracles or Odysseus, came to be thought of as the ancestors of many lineages and communities—and not only in Greece: as Elias J. 4 The preservation of these traditions was assigned to the memory specialists: the poets. 5 Some clues of particular interest for genealogies are to be found in Homer: in Il. M. Hall [2002]) have awakened new interest in the ways in which Greek identity was shaped in antiquity and “reconstructed” in the romantic age, an issue which was central to classic works such as Mazzarino (1965–66).
118–19: here we find, in its original unaltered form, the Attic decree approving the truce) was also intended to be reworked and polished. 118–19), which give us a remarkably clear idea of the procedures followed in such circumstances, could, in the process of a definitive rewriting, have remained in the form in which we find them. 120). 10. 1–83—where the “signature” is systematically missing—is in itself significant. But while it is true that the vast amount of space given over to ephemeral 80 81 82 (1919) 30.
2–3) that fully justifies the reconstruction presented as hard fact by Marcellinus (or his sources). The only weak point here is the absurd idea that, once in exile in Skapte Hyle (423 bc), Thucydides settled down happily to the job of “artistic rewriting”: as if in the year 423—that is twenty years before the end of the war—the “work of note-taking” was already finished! The dates do not match at all, notwithstanding the fact that at one point the ancients themselves had arrived at similar conclusions regarding Thucydides’ exile,68 an exile that Aristotle and those following in his footsteps knew nothing about.