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, 2016 This chapter analyses the moralising techniques and moral lessons of Thucydides. Using the moralising techniques found and analysed in Polybius and Diodorus as its point of departure, it discovers that Thucydides uses a root version of many of the techniques found in more developed form in the two Hellenistic historiographers, but that, like Herodotus,
Lisa Irene Hau
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Thucydides’ Awareness of Herodotus, or Herodotus’ Awareness of Thucydides?
, 2010 This volume, like the conference from which it derives, is devoted to the reception of Thucydides. The first phase of that reception is in many ways the hardest for us to evaluate, that is, Thucydides’reception by his own contemporaries, and by the ...
Hornblower, Simon
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2006
Lo studio ricostruisce le prime fasi della fortuna di Tucidide, analizzando come un’opera che era dichiaratamente monografica e paradigmatica fu fraintesa dai suoi continuatori, i quali la considerarono un anello del ciclo storico. In questo modo si vuole contribuire alla storia del genere storiografico, nella varietà delle sue forme e nel rapporto ...
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Lo studio ricostruisce le prime fasi della fortuna di Tucidide, analizzando come un’opera che era dichiaratamente monografica e paradigmatica fu fraintesa dai suoi continuatori, i quali la considerarono un anello del ciclo storico. In questo modo si vuole contribuire alla storia del genere storiografico, nella varietà delle sue forme e nel rapporto ...
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, 2014 Thucydides (Herodotus behind him) (Double) Naples Nat\u27l. Arch.
Ferguson, Everett
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1999
Abstract Discussing the generalizing and philosophical quality of poetry, Aristotle writes: It is clear … that the task of the poet is not to say what happened, but the sort of thing that might happen … that is why poetry [poiesis] is more philosophical and serious 1 than history, for poetry deals more [] with the universal, history the ...
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Abstract Discussing the generalizing and philosophical quality of poetry, Aristotle writes: It is clear … that the task of the poet is not to say what happened, but the sort of thing that might happen … that is why poetry [poiesis] is more philosophical and serious 1 than history, for poetry deals more [] with the universal, history the ...
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1998
Abstract War is a harsh teacher wrote Thucydides in the fifth century BC. Rood analyses the techniques through which Thucydides' narrative explains the origin and course of the Peloponnesian War and exposes harsh truths about how individuals and states behave.
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Abstract War is a harsh teacher wrote Thucydides in the fifth century BC. Rood analyses the techniques through which Thucydides' narrative explains the origin and course of the Peloponnesian War and exposes harsh truths about how individuals and states behave.
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