Thucydides and Herodotus
By: edited by Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780199593262
Subjects: Historiography; Rezeption; Geschichtsschreibung; Historians; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 374-378) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner; title: Structure and meaning in epic and historiography / Richard B. Rutherford; title: Thucydides as reader of Herodotus / Philip A. Stadter; title: Indirect discourse in Herodotus and Thucydides / Carlo Scardino; title: The rationality of Herodotus and Thucydides as evidenced by their respective use of numbers / Catherine Rubicam; title: Herodotus and Thucydides on blind decisions preceding military action / Hans-Peter Stahl; title: Oaths : theory and practice in the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides / Donald Lateiner; title: Thermopylae and Pylos, with reference to the Homeric background / Edith Foster; title: Thucydides on Themistocles : a Herodotean narrator? / Wolfgang Blösel; title: Persians in Thucydides / Rosaria Vignolo Munson; title: Aristotle's Rhetoric, the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, and the speeches in Herodotus and Thucydides / Christopher Pelling; title: A noble alliance : Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon's Procles / Emily Baragwanath; title: Herodotus and Thucydides in Roman Republican historiography / Iris Samotta.