Title

Thucydides and Herodotus

Authors

Donald Lateiner, Ohio Wesleyan University
Edith Foster

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Description

This edited collection looks at two of the most important ancient Greek historians living in the 5th Century BCE who are considered to be the founders of the western tradition of historiography. Thucydides and Herodotus examines the relevant relationship between these historians which isconsidered, especially nowadays, by historians and philologists to be more significant than previously realized. The volume includes an introduction by the editors which addresses our changing view of how the historians relate to one another, and twelve papers written by leading experts in the field of ancient history and philology. Nine of the papers discuss either comprehensive issues pertaining to thehistorians' relationship or their common themes and practices, while three further papers discuss the ancient reception of Herodotus and Thucydides and investigate the historians' debt to Homer.

ISBN

9780199593262

Publication Date

2012

Publisher

Oxford UP

City

Oxford

Disciplines

Classics

Recommended Citation

Lateiner, Donald and Foster, Edith, "Thucydides and Herodotus" (2012). Classics Faculty Books. 9.
https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/clas_books/9