Index nominum et rerum

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. I. Ideas of History
5. Ktēma es aiei: Thucydides’ Concept of “Learning through History” and Its Realization in His Work 3
6. Character Judgements in the Histories: their Function and Distribution 23
7. Ascribing Motivation in Thucydides. Between Historical Research and Literary Representation 41
8. The Causes of the Athenian Plague and Thucydides 73
9. II. Representations of Time and Space
10. The Presence of the Past in Thucydides 91
11. The Cylon Conspiracy: Thucydides and the Uses of the Past 119
12. Κατ᾽ ἔϑνη καὶ κατὰ πόλεις. From Catalogues to Archaeology 139
13. In the Shadow of Pericles: Athens’ Samian Victory and the Organisation of the Pentekontaetia in Thucydides 153
14. Transformation of Landscapes in Thucydides 167
15. III. Thucydides and Politics
16. “Reading” Athens: Foreign Perceptions of the Political Roles of Athenian Leaders in Thucydides 181
17. Thucydides and the Masses 199
18. Thucydides’ Pericles. Between Historical Reality and Literary Representation 225
19. IV. Aspects of the Narrative
20. The Balance of Power and Compositional Balance: Thucydides Book 1 257
21. Blurring the Boundaries of Speech: Thucydides and Indirect Discourse 271
22. Making Meaning: Cross-references and their Interpretation in Thucydides’ Sicilian Narrative 287
23. The Dot on the ‘i’: Thucydidean Epilogues 309
24. The Narrative Legacy of Thucydides: Polybius, Book I 329
25. V. The Language of Thucydides
26. The litotes of Thucydides 353
27. History as Presence. Time, Tense and Narrative Modes in Thucydides 371
28. Textual Structure and Modality in Thucydides’ Military Exhortations 391
29. Attributive Discourse in the Speeches in Thucydides 409
30. Difficult Statements in Thucydides 435
31. The Language of Pericles 447
32. List of Contributors 465
33. Bibliography 471
34. Index nominum et rerum 505
35. Index locorum 519