Thucydides's unusual praise of the Athenian general Phrynichus in 8.27.5 gives insight into how the historian thought and wrote. The praise seems unwarranted in the immediate instance and in light of Phrynichus's subsequent actions. I argue that the praise seems directed at the manner in which Phrynichus made his decisions, and how Thucydides's praise for him parallels his portrait of Pericles
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This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Oxford University Press ...
In this dissertation I argue that the theory of relativism developed by the sophist Protagoras of Ab...
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Thucydides’ critique of history’s reception in the proem of book 1 is meant to have a rhetorical eff...
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Speakers in Thucydides sometimes dismiss considerations of justice as irrelevant to decision-making ...
1. The main source on the opposition of Thucydides the son of Melesias to Pericles is Plut. Per. XI ...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Oxford University Press ...
In this dissertation I argue that the theory of relativism developed by the sophist Protagoras of Ab...
After reporting the death of Pericles Thucycides gives an assessment of his leadership, adding by wa...
Pericles and the Athenian Imperialism, from Thucydides to contemporary historiography. The developme...
Employing the tools of both textual and contextual analysis, this dissertation demonstrates that a c...
This paper explores the reception of Thucydides’ account of the Athenian defeat in Sicily in 415– 41...
The speeches in Thucydides have long been a source of lively historical controversy. Many scholars h...
The main source of information about the Peloponnesian War, which took place between Athens and Spar...
Thucydides’ critique of history’s reception in the proem of book 1 is meant to have a rhetorical eff...
Thesis advisor: Robert C. BartlettHannah Arendt contends that one can find in Thucydides' presentati...
DESPITE MANY misgivings, scholars for years generally accepted the view of the Megarian decree frame...
Review of Thucydides on Strategy: Athenian and Spartan Grand Strategies in the Peloponesian War and ...
PhD Thesisn this thesis I argue that an explanation of Themistokles' absence from the strategic of ...
Speakers in Thucydides sometimes dismiss considerations of justice as irrelevant to decision-making ...
1. The main source on the opposition of Thucydides the son of Melesias to Pericles is Plut. Per. XI ...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Oxford University Press ...
In this dissertation I argue that the theory of relativism developed by the sophist Protagoras of Ab...
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