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Journal articles on the topic "Thucydides Language"

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Mader, Gottfried. "Demagogic Style and Historical Method: Locating Cleon's Mytilenean Rhetoric (Thucydides 3.37–40)." Rhetorica 35, no. 1 (2017): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rh.2017.35.1.1.

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Truth-construction and -mediation are theorized both by Thucydides xyngrapheus and by the internal rhetores in his History, with tensions between these perspectives highlighting rhetorically significant moments of political communication. The historian posits the (negative) configuration “contest – pleasure – hearing – untruth – useless” as contrastive foil to his own model of “rigorous enquiry – pleasure disavowed – seeing – truth – useful.” Cleon the demagogue, in a process of rhetorical “contaminatio” or creative fusion, artfully (mis)appropriates and instrumentalizes this model in his critique of Athenian assembly culture, embedding the signature Thucydidean categories in a spirited anti-Thucydidean argument. His distinctive approach, conflating Thucydidean categories and noteworthy Periclean echoes, marks him as both anti-Pericles and anti-Thucydides, and signals a counter-model to the historian's own schema of truth-construction. As such, Cleon's tirade fits into the History's wider concern with the corruption of political discourse over the course of the war.
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Low, Polly. "Looking for the language of Athenian imperialism." Journal of Hellenic Studies 125 (November 2005): 93–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0075426900007126.

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AbstractConventional portrayals of Athenian imperialism, heavily influenced by Thucydides, tend to assume that the Athenians thought of, and described, their imperialistic actions in frank, even brutal, terms. This article seeks to challenge that assumption by exploring two sets of fifth-century Athenian epigraphical material: documents which contain the phrase ‘the cities which the Athenians rule’, and inscriptions imposing regulations on allied states which are erected at the ally's expense. In both cases, it is argued that if these apparently overtly aggressive documents are considered in an epigraphic rather than a Thucydidean context, they reveal the existence of a more subtle, nuanced and diplomatic approach to imperial politics.
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Kalkavage, C. W., and W. Robert Connor. "Thucydides." American Journal of Philology 109, no. 2 (1988): 259. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/294588.

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NIKOLAIDIS, A. G. "THUCYDIDES 4.28.5." Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 37, no. 1 (December 1, 1990): 89–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1990.tb00219.x.

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Quinn, Trevor. "Thucydides 3.36.2." Mnemosyne 50, no. 3 (1997): 323–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568525972609636.

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Panegyres, Konstantine. "Thucydides 4.121.1." Mnemosyne 72, no. 5 (September 3, 2019): 867–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-12342688.

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Zoido, Juan Carlos Iglesias. "The Battle Exhortation in Ancient Rhetoric." Rhetorica 25, no. 2 (2007): 141–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.2.141.

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This paper examines how the battle exhortation was analysed in ancient rhetoric. The Thucydidean battle exhortation is the key: by combining different lines of argumentation drawn from the oratorical practices of the late fifth century BCE, Thucydides created a new kind of battle speech. The main feature of this speech is its flexibility in reasoning and its ability to fulfil new functions in historiographic works. Those two features explain why that kind of military speech proved so successful with later historians, and they also explain the views of imperial-age rhetoricians in analysing these speeches.
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Marinatos, Nanno. "A Note on the Theiasmos of Nicias in Thucydides." Classica et Mediaevalia 70 (August 9, 2021): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/classicaetmediaevalia.v70i.128156.

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Thucydides criticises Nicias for being too partial to divination (7.50.4). It is suggested here through the examination of the linguistic nuances of θειασμός and the verb προσκείμενος, that Thucydides assessed him negatively primarily because he took the side of the army-seers. Yet, this criticism ought not to be blown out of proportion. Thucydides’ portrait differs significantly from Plutarch’s who describes Nicias as a diffident man easily gripped by fear and addicted to prophecies. Consequently, Thucydides’ criticism is a small parenthesis in his overall presentation of the Athenian general’s career whose decisions were based on skill, rational criteria and experience (5.16.1).
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Jordan, Borimir. "Religion in Thucydides." Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-) 116 (1986): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/283914.

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Neville Morley. "Thucydides Quote Unquote." Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics 20, no. 3 (2013): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/arion.20.3.0009.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Thucydides Language"

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Côté, Catherine-Élisabeth. "The significance of erōs in Thucydides' Portrayal of Athenian imperialism." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4099.

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Thucydides' text reveals nine instances of $\sp{\sp,}\!\!\acute\epsilon\rho\omega\varsigma$ and closely related words. The lack of evidence to support the assumption that a sexual context must necessarily form the primary meaning of $\sp{\sp,}\!\!\acute\epsilon\rho\omega\varsigma$ in the fifth century scB.C. invites a closer examination. The first three instances in the History appear in conjunction with three Athenian leaders, who represent three very distinct stages in Athenian imperialism, namely Pericles, Cleon and Alcibiades. Throughout his treatments of these individuals, Thucydides highlights their interaction with the demos and underlines the process by which $\sp{\sp,}\!\!\acute\epsilon\rho\omega\varsigma$ ultimately subordinates reason: his portrayal of Pericles demonstrates the opposition between the rational $\gamma\nu\acute\omega\mu\eta$ and the irrational $\rm o\sp{\!\!\sp,}\rho\gamma\acute\eta,$ that of Cleon illustrates the process by which the Athenians turn from $\gamma\nu\acute\omega\mu\eta$ to $\rm o\sp{\!\!\sp,}\rho\gamma\acute\eta,$ and his treatment of Alcibiades underlines the dangers of such impulsive resolution. What was once $\tau\acute o\lambda\mu\alpha$ is rendered $\alpha\sp{\!\!\!\sp,}\lambda\acute o\gamma\iota\sigma\tau o\varsigma\ \tau\rm\acute o\lambda\mu\alpha.$
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Dimitropoulos, Panagiotis. "Untersuchungen zum finalen Genetiv des substantivierten Infinitivs bei Thukydides /." Helsinski : Societas scientiarum Fennica, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37635921n.

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Kennedy, Scott Kennedy. "How to write history: Thucydides and Herodotus in the ancient rhetorical tradition." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523138844396422.

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Books on the topic "Thucydides Language"

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Word and concept in Thucydides. Atlanta, Ga: Scholars Press, 1997.

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Thucydides Book 1: A students' grammatical commentary. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003.

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Stork, Peter. Index of verb forms in Thucydides. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

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The historical present in Thucydides: Semantics and narrative function = Le présent historique chez Thucydide : sémantique et fonction narrative. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2011.

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Thucydides. Thucydides: Book VII. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press, 1986.

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Vanhaegendoren, Koen. Semantische studie van het woordveld apragmosynē-polypragmosynē: Van de aanvang van de Griekse letterkunde tot en met Thucydides. Leuven: Garant, 1999.

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Thucydides, ed. Speaking the same language: Speech and audience in Thucydides' Spartan debates. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.

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Thucydides and Pindar: Historical narrative and the world of Epinikian poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Xenophon, ed. Greek reader (prose): Consisting of selections from Xenophon, Plato, Herodotus, and Thucydides : with notes adapted to Goodwin's Greek grammar, parallel references to Crosby's and Hadley's grammars, and copperplate maps. Boston: Ginn and Heath, 1986.

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Thucydides, ed. Concordantia Thucydidea. Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "Thucydides Language"

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"16. Thucydides." In Language and History in Ancient Greek Culture, 278–96. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812206098.278.

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"The Language of Pericles." In Thucydides Between History and Literature, 447–64. De Gruyter, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110297751.447.

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Joho, Tobias. "Thucydides’ Abstract Nominal Style." In Style and Necessity in Thucydides, 25–46. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812043.003.0002.

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Abstract Thucydides draws on four methods to give his style an abstract nominal character: (1) abstract phrases in place of circumstantial participles and subordinate clauses, (2) abstract phrases instead of personal nouns, (3) frequent use of nominal periphrasis, and (4) employment of impersonal passives. These tendencies, however, do not prevail in equal measure in all parts of Thucydides’ work. In his account of stasis at Corcyra, Thucydides juxtaposes two discrete sections that encapsulate the two basic modes of his style: the chronicle of events (3.70–81) is marked by a plain, commonplace idiom, whereas the following excursus on stasis (3.82–3) features a high-water mark of abstract language. In general, the excursus displays a plethora of abstract subjects and of abstract nouns modified by further abstract nouns, while the narrative contains almost no examples of these constructions.
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Joho, Tobias. "The Passivity of the Powerful." In Style and Necessity in Thucydides, 76–107. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812043.003.0004.

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Abstract At two central places in the History, Thucydides indicates that events are subject to a circular pattern, thus implying that the course of events is not entirely open. The prevalence of the depersonalizing style in both passages suggests a link between abstract language and necessity. The Archaeology provides a clue regarding the nature of this necessity: a quest for power emerges as the driving force of the development of early empires. This process also fuels the rise of the Athenian empire according to the Athenian ambassadors at Sparta, who use impersonal phrases that suggest the general exposure of human beings to forces beyond their control. Thucydides’ own account of the rise of the Athenian empire in the Pentecontaetia confirms the main point of the ambassadors: the Athenians have been caught up in a process that paradoxically reduces them, despite their immense power, to a passive role.
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Joho, Tobias. "A World Governed by Neuters." In Style and Necessity in Thucydides, 108–58. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812043.003.0005.

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Abstract Human nature emerges as the force ultimately responsible for the impact of necessity on the formation of events. By using the abstract style, several speakers highlight transpersonal factors that govern the behaviour of human beings. In the Mytilenean Debate, Diodotus represents the fundamental driving forces (both passions and external circumstances) as larger-than-life agents. Several aspects of Diodotus’ account of natural necessity recall the intervention of daemonic powers in Euripides. The Melian Dialogue also suggests a parallelism between the natural and the daemonic: the speakers juxtapose ‘the divine’ and ‘the human’, both expressed by the same impersonal phrases. An analysis of specific passages shows that Herodotus and Euripides use, alongside references to personal gods, neuter abstracts to suggest the impact of forces that evoke the depersonalizing notion of a ‘divine fate.’ Thucydides adopts this language but gives it a twist: immanent necessity based on ‘the human’ takes the place of divinely sanctioned fatalism.
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"Chapter Six. Sense And Sentence Complexity. Sentence Structure, Sentence Connection, And Tense-Aspect As Indicators Of Narrative Mode In Thucydides’ Histories." In The Language of Literature, 93–121. BRILL, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004156548.i-251.41.

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George, Coulter H. "Greek." In How Dead Languages Work, 13–56. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852827.003.0002.

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To lay the foundations for the linguistic discussion found in the remainder of the book, this chapter begins with a systematic introduction to some of the main features of Ancient Greek, explaining the necessary technical terms along the way. First comes a discussion of the sounds of Greek, focusing on those that are particularly characteristic of Greek, as well as the development of Greek from the Proto-Indo-European parent language. The chapter then introduces some of the ways Greek words, especially nouns and verbs, change their forms to suit the grammatical context, since such morphological richness will come up repeatedly in the book. Excerpts from three texts are then discussed: first, the Iliad, to show how formulaic language marks its origins as an oral composition; second, Thucydides, to highlight the abstract language that characterizes his history; third, the New Testament, to show how much translators sometimes need to rearrange the structure of a sentence in order for the syntax to make sense in English.
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