Acknowledgements
1: Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner: Introduction
Comprehensive Questions
2: R.B. Rutherford: Structure and Meaning in Epic and
Historiography.
3: Philip Stadter: Thucydides as 'Reader' of Herodotus.
4: Carlo Scardino: Indirect Discourse in Herodotus and
Thucydides.
5: Catherine Rubincam: The 'rationality' of Herodotus and
Thucydides as Evidenced by their Respective Use of Numbers.
Common Themes
6: H. P Stahl: Herodotus and Thucydides on Blind Decisions
Preceding Military Action.
7: Donald Lateiner: Oaths: Theory and Practice in The Histories of
Herodotus and Thucydides.
8: Edith Foster: Thermopylae and Pylos, with Reference to the
Homeric Background.
9: Wolfgang Blösel: Thucydides on Themistocles: A Herodotean
Narrator?
10: Rosaria Munson: Persians in Thucydides.
Reception
11: Christopher Pelling: Aristotle s Rhetoric, The Rhetorica ad
Alexandrum, and the Speeches in Herodotus and Thucydides.
12: Emily Baragwanath: A Noble Alliance: Herodotus, Thucydides, and
Xenophon s Procles.
13: Iris Samotta: Herodotus and Thucydides in Roman Republican
Historiography
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.
All the contributions present a very high level of learning and
understanding of the texts ... The book succeeds in throwing a
fresh light on old problems and is a valuable addition to modern
scholarship.
*Pavel Nyvlt, Listy Filologicke*
a timely collection ... Foster and Lateiner can be congratulated
for assembling a lucid series of discussions by both experienced
and younger hands on the two historians' combined debt to epic, on
shared themes and techniques, and on their reception by writers
later in antiquity.
*Tim Rood, Times Literary SupplementCHOICE*
an edited volume of the best sort, originating from and maintaining
a clear purpose while allowing individual voices to be heard. The
essays are generally of a high quality and reflect the richness of
these two foundational texts. Students of Herodotus, Thucydides,
and ancient historiography will read them with benefit and
pleasure.
*Christopher Baron, Exemplaria Classica*
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