Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative

Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative

Thermopylae, Cannae and Beyond

Kroon, Caroline H.M.; Jong, Irene J.F. de; van Gils, Lidewij W.

Brill

11/2018

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Inglês

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In Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative fourteen specialists study, from literary, linguistic and historical angles the textual strategies that the Greek historian Herodotus and the Roman historian Livy employ in their accounts of two famous battles in ancient history
Preface Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Lidewij van Gils, Irene de Jong and Caroline Kroon Part 1 Thermopylae 2 Thermopylae: Herodotus versus the Legend Hans van Wees 3 A Narratological Comparison of Herodotus and Diodorus on Thermopylae Mathieu de Bakker 4 Narrative and Identity in Thermopylae (Herodotus 7.201-7.239) Antonis Tsakmakis 5 Herodotus' Handling of (Narratological) Time in the Thermopylae Passage Irene J.F. de Jong 6 Herodotus and Thucydides: Distance and Immersion Rutger Allan Part 2 Cannae 7 Livy on Cannae: a Literary Overview Stephen Oakley 8 Discourse-Linguistic Strategies in Livy's Account of the Battle at Cannae Lidewij van Gils and Caroline Kroon 9 Who Knows What Will Happen Next? Livy's fraus Punica from a Literary Point of View Dennis Pausch 10 Livy's Use of Spatial References in the Cannae Episode: from Structure to Strategy Lidewij van Gils 11 ET RATIO ET RES: Characterization of Roman Conduct through Speech Representation in the Battle of Cannae Michel Buijs 12 Words When It's Time for Action: Representations of Speech and Thought in the Battles of Cannae and Zama Suzanne Adema Part 3 Beyond Thermopylae and Cannae 13 Thermopylae and Cannae: How One Battle Narrative Enriches Another Mathieu de Bakker and Michiel van der Keur 14 The Great and the Small: Thermopylae and Sphacteria Adriaan Rademaker 15 Force, Frequency and Focalisation: the Function of Similes in the Battle Narrative of Vergil, Aeneid 10 Stephen Harrison 16 Parallel Plotlines: the Function of Similes in the Battle-Narrative of Vergil, Aeneid 10 (2) Michiel van der Keur Index
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