Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse

by Mabel Lang, Eleanor Dickey (Editor), Richard Hamilton (Editor), Jeffrey S. Rusten (Editor)

Overview

Mabel Lang's long career as a scholar and teacher has given her a unique perspective on one of the most important authors in western literature. Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse brings together several of her most thoughtful papers on figures and issues including the 400, Cleon, and Alcibiades, and joins them with new material on narrative technique. The assembled papers are an important complement to Professor Lang's pathbreaking study of Herodotean narrative. Together with introductory essays by the volume's editors, these papers will enable students of historiography in general to obtain a better understanding of how Thucydides engaged his audience. Although they were written over many years, the papers share a consistency of insight that makes them continually relevant to all who endeavor to understand the literary art of Thucydides. Reviews for this volume: "[T]his collection of Lang's writings should complement any bookshelf devoted to Thucydides or to narratological approaches to ancient literature." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review "Very engaging and thought-provoking..." - The Classical Outlook

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780979971341
Publisher:	Michigan Classical Press
Publication date:	12/31/2011
Pages:	219
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Jeffrey S. Rusten is Professor of Classics at Cornell University. Richard Hamilton is Paul Shorey Professor Emeritus of Greek at Bryn Mawr College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Jeffrey Rusten Richard Hamilton ix

Foreword Mary Patterson McPherson xi

Mabel Lang on Thucydides Jeffrey Rusten xiii

Part 1 Narrative

1 Participial Motivation in Thucydides 1

Narrative Inconsistencies Internal and External 17

2 A Note on Ithome 19

3 Kylonian Conspiracy 27

4 Scapegoat Pausanias 37

5 The Murder of Hipparchus 49

6 Alcibiades vs. Phrynichus 63

Narrative Structure and Historical Interpretation 71

7 Thucydides and the Epidamnian Affair 73

8 The Revolution of the 400 79

9 Revolution of the 400: Chronology and Constitutions 97

Part 2 Discourse

Thucydidean Thought-Patterns 111

10 Thucydidean Thought 113

11 Thucydides as Speech-Writer 117

Herodotean Inheritances and Adaptations 127

12 Thucydides, First Person 129

13 The Thucydidean Tetralogy (1.67-88) 139

14 The Paired Speeches of the Corinthians (1.120-24) and Pericles (1.140-44) and the Stories They Enclose 145

15 Necessary for Whom? Direct vs. Indirect Speeches in Thucydides 151

Biographical Sketch Eleanor Dickey 197

Publications Mabel Lang 209

Bibliography 213

Editorial Reviews

...overall this collection of Lang’s writings should complement any bookshelf devoted to Thucydides or to narratological approaches to ancient literature.'

Bryn Mawr Classical Review - Timothy Doran