A01=Walter Robert Connor
Adviser
Aeschylus
Allusion
Ambiguity
American Council of Learned Societies
Author_Walter Robert Connor
Belligerent
Brasidas
Calculation
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Criticism
Dartmouth College
Delian League
Demagogue
Demosthenes
Determination
Digression
Diodotus
Diodotus (son of Eucrates)
Disadvantage
Epigram
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Euripides
Excursus
Foreign policy
Gorgias
Great power
Greatness
Gylippus
Harmodius and Aristogeiton (sculpture)
Hellenica
Hermocrates
Hermocrates (dialogue)
Herodotus
Hippias (tyrant)
Hoplite
Hyperbolus
Inference
Irony
Isocrates
Literature
Military operation
Narrative
Nicias
Nicias (Indo-Greek king)
Oligarchy
Peloponnese
Peloponnesian War
Pericles
Pessimism
Plataea
Poetry
Politician
Prediction
Princeton University
Pylos
Reader (academic rank)
Rhetoric
Sentimentality
Sicilian Expedition
Suggestion
The Other Hand
The Persians
The Unnamed
Themistocles
Theramenes
Thucydides
Trireme
Tyrant
Uncertainty
University of Melbourne
V.
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691102399
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Oct 1987
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This full-scale sequential reading of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War will be invaluable to the specialist and also to those in search of an introduction and companion to the Histories. Moving beyond other studies by its focus on the reader's role in giving meaning to the text, it reveals Thucydides' use of objectivity not so much as a standard for the proper presentation of his subject matter as a method for communicating with his readers and involving them in the complexity and suffering of the Peloponnesian War. W. Robert Connor shows that as Thucydides' themes and ideas are reintroduced and developed, the initial reactions of the reader are challenged, subverted, and eventually made to contribute to a deeper understanding of the war.
W. Robert Connor is Professor of Classics and Chairman of the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University.
