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Author:   Edith Foster (Assistant Professor of History, Ashland University.) ,  Donald Lateiner (John Wright Professor of Humanities & Classics, Ohio Wesleyan University.)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.10cm
Weight:   0.638kg
ISBN:  

9780199593262

ISBN 10:   0199593264
Pages:   414
Publication Date:   03 May 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1: Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner: Introduction Comprehensive Questions 2: R.B. Rutherford: Structure and Meaning in Epic and Historiography. 3: Philip Stadter: Thucydides as 'Reader' of Herodotus. 4: Carlo Scardino: Indirect Discourse in Herodotus and Thucydides. 5: Catherine Rubincam: The 'rationality' of Herodotus and Thucydides as Evidenced by their Respective Use of Numbers. Common Themes 6:  H. P Stahl: Herodotus and Thucydides on Blind Decisions Preceding Military Action. 7: Donald Lateiner: Oaths: Theory and Practice in The Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides. 8: Edith Foster: Thermopylae and Pylos, with Reference to the Homeric Background. 9: Wolfgang Blösel: Thucydides on Themistocles: A Herodotean Narrator? 10: Rosaria Munson: Persians in Thucydides. Reception 11: Christopher Pelling: Aristotle s Rhetoric, The Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, and the Speeches in Herodotus and Thucydides. 12: Emily Baragwanath: A Noble Alliance: Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon s Procles. 13: Iris Samotta: Herodotus and Thucydides in Roman Republican Historiography

Reviews

a timely collection ... Foster and Lateiner can be congratulated for assembling a lucid series of discussions by both experienced and younger hands on the two historians' combined debt to epic, on shared themes and techniques, and on their reception by writers later in antiquity. Tim Rood, Times Literary Supplement

All the contributions present a very high level of learning and understanding of the texts ... The book succeeds in throwing a fresh light on old problems and is a valuable addition to modern scholarship. Pavel Nyvlt, Listy Filologicke a timely collection ... Foster and Lateiner can be congratulated for assembling a lucid series of discussions by both experienced and younger hands on the two historians' combined debt to epic, on shared themes and techniques, and on their reception by writers later in antiquity. Tim Rood, Times Literary Supplement

Author Information

Edith Foster is an Assistant Professor of History at Ashland University. She is the author of Thucydides, Pericles, and Periclean Imperialism (2010), of articles on Thucydides and Lucretius in the American Journal of Philology (2009) and in Sea of Languages: Complicating the History of Western Translation (forthcoming), and of numerous book reviews in BMCR, CPH, and Gnomon. Donald Lateiner studies Greek historiography, ancient epic, and the ancient novels. He is the author of The Historical Method of Herodotus and Sardonic Smile: Nonverbal Behaviors in Homeric Epic. He has introduced and annotated translations of Herodotus and Thucydides. He teaches Greek, Latin, and folklore at Ohio Wesleyan University.

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