02827nam 2200589 450 991081378380332120230828215838.01-4725-0244-21-4725-0243-4(CKB)3710000000354221(EBL)1939098(SSID)ssj0001472388(PQKBManifestationID)11807597(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001472388(PQKBWorkID)11436628(PQKB)11045898(MiAaPQ)EBC1939098(Au-PeEL)EBL1939098(CaPaEBR)ebr11018678(CaONFJC)MIL752495(OCoLC)903442524(EXLCZ)99371000000035422120150220h20062006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThucydides and the shaping of history /Emily GreenwoodLondon, England ;New York :Bloomsbury Academic,2006.©20061 online resource (201 p.)Classical Literature and SocietyDescription based upon print version of record.1-336-21209-8 0-7156-3283-3 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Cover; Contents; Editor's Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Whose Contemporary?; 2. Point of View and Vantage Point; 3. Temporal and Spatial Perspectives; 4. Speaking the Truth; 5. New Theatres of War: Book 8 and Sophocles' Philoctetes; 6. Reading Thucydides with Lucian; Notes; Appendices; 1. Timeline; 2. Structure of the History; 3. Maps; Bibliography; Index of Passages; A; D; G; H; L; P; S; T; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; ZThucydides' work was one of the most exciting creations in the cultural history of Greece in the fifth century BC - one of only two monumental prose works to have survived - and it still poses fresh and challenging questions about the writing of history. In the twenty-first century, it still challenges the reader: there is a marked tension in Thucydides' History between his aim to write about contemporary events and his desire that his work should outlast the period in which he composed it. Thucydides and the Shaping of History addresses two important issues: how contemporary was the History wClassical literature and society.HistoriographyGreeceGreeceHistoryPeloponnesian War, 431-404 B.CHistoriographyHistoriography938Greenwood Emily599693MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813783803321Thucydides and the shaping of history1026201UNINA