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1991
Abstract This passage (i. 70-1) is the peroration of the Corinthians’ speech to the Spartans in the famous Debate in 432 bc. It consists of a comparison between the characters of the Athenians and the Spartans, and an exhortation to the latter to bestir themselves.
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Abstract This passage (i. 70-1) is the peroration of the Corinthians’ speech to the Spartans in the famous Debate in 432 bc. It consists of a comparison between the characters of the Athenians and the Spartans, and an exhortation to the latter to bestir themselves.
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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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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,
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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,
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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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