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Redeeming Thucydides' Book VIII
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Vasileios Liotsakis
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-12 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Since antiquity, Book 8 of Thucydides’ History has been considered an unpolished draft which lacks revision. Even those who admit that the book has some eleme
Suspense in Ancient Greek Literature
Language: en
Pages: 492
Authors: Ioannis M. Konstantakos
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-22 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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The use of suspense in ancient literature attracts increasing attention in modern scholarship, but hitherto there has been no comprehensive work analysing the t
Witnesses and Evidence in Ancient Greek Literature
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Andreas Markantonatos
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-19 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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The fact that aspects of witnesses and evidence put them in the centre of the institutional and cultural (e.g. religious, literary) construction of ancient soci
The Thucydidean Turn
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Benjamin Earley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-14 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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The emergence of Thucydides as an influential political thinker in the first half of the 20th century has been astonishingly neglected by modern scholars. This
Xenophon’s Peloponnesian War
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Aggelos Kapellos
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-23 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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The advances in Xenophontic studies of the last generation have still not resulted in a definitive literary treatment of the Hellenica 1-2, so Xenophon’s desc