Thucydides and Herodotus

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.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; 1. Introduction ; COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS ; 2. Structure and Meaning in Epic and Historiography. ; 3. Thucydides as 'Reader' of Herodotus. ; 4. Indirect Discourse in Herodotus and Thucydides. ; 5. The 'rationality' of Herodotus and Thucydides as Evidenced by their Respective Use of Numbers. ; COMMON THEMES ; 6. Herodotus and Thucydides on Blind Decisions Preceding Military Action. ; 7. Oaths: Theory and Practice in The Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides. ; 8. Thermopylae and Pylos, with Reference to the Homeric Background. ; 9. Thucydides on Themistocles: A Herodotean Narrator? ; 10. Persians in Thucydides. ; RECEPTION ; 11. Aristotle s Rhetoric, The Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, and the Speeches in Herodotus and Thucydides. ; 12. A Noble Alliance: Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon s Procles. ; 13. Herodotus and Thucydides in Roman Republican Historiography

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