Thucydides War Narrative: A Structural Study (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Thucydides War Narrative This analysis of Thucydides's History argues that the narrative structure changes very substantially after book v, and that these changes in structure reflect changes in Thucydides' own understandig of the nature of the Peloponnesian War. A substantial and readable introduction surveys changes in historiography in the last quarter-century.
Full description- Publisher: University of California Press
- Published: 12 February 2006
- Format: Hardback 272 pages
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- Categories: Historiography | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Military History
- ISBN 13: 9780520241275 ISBN 10: 0520241274
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Full description for Thucydides War Narrative
As a sustained analysis of the connections between narrative structure and meaning in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Carolyn Dewald's study revolves around a curious aspect of Thucydides' work: the first ten years of the war's history are formed on principles quite different from those shaping the years that follow. Although aspects of this change in style have been recognized in previous scholarship, Dewald has rigorously analyzed how its various elements are structured, used, and related to each other. Her study argues that these changes in style and organization reflect how Thucydides' own understanding of the war changed over time. Throughout, however, the History's narrative structure bears witness to Thucydides' dialogic efforts to depict the complexities of rational choice and behavior on the part of the war's combatants, as well as his own authorial interest in accuracy of representation. In her introduction and conclusion, Dewald explores some ways in which details of style and narrative structure are central to the larger theoretical issue of history's ability to meaningfully represent the past. She also surveys changes in historiography in the past quarter-century and considers how Thucydidean scholarship has reflected and responded to larger cultural trends.
