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Textual strategies in ancient war narrative : Thermopylae, Cannae and beyond /
In this collected volume fourteen experts in the fields of Classics and Ancient History study the textual strategies used by Herodotus and Livy when recounting the disastrous battles at Thermopylae and Cannae. Literary, linguistic and historical approaches are used (often in combination) in order to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2018.
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| Colección: | Amsterdam studies in classical philology ;
v. 29. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1. Introduction (van Gils, de Jong and Kroon); 1. War Narrative; 2. Two Case Studies: Thermopylae and Cannae; 3. Narratology, Discourse Linguistics and Classics; 4. Historiography and Discourse Linguistics; 5. Outline; Bibliography; Part 1. Thermopylae; Chapter 2. Thermopylae: Herodotus versus the Legend (van Wees); Chapter 3. A Narratological Comparison of Herodotus and Diodorus on Thermopylae (de Bakker); Chapter 4. Narrative and Identity in Thermopylae (Herodotus 7.201-7.239) (Tsakmakis)
- Chapter 5. Herodotus' Handling of (Narratological) Time in the Thermopylae Passage (de Jong)Chapter 6. Herodotus and Thucydides: Distance and Immersion (Allan); Part 2. Cannae; Chapter 7. Livy on Cannae: a Literary Overview (Oakley); Chapter 8. Discourse-Linguistic Strategies in Livy's Account of the Battle at Cannae (van Gils and Kroon); Chapter 9. Who Knows What Will Happen Next? Livy's fraus Punica from a Literary Point of View (Pausch); Chapter 10. Livy's Use of Spatial References in the Cannae Episode: from Structure to Strategy (van Gils)
- Chapter 11. ET RATIO ET RES: Characterization of Roman Conduct through Speech Representation in the Battle of Cannae (Buijs)Chapter 12. Words When It's Time for Action: Representations of Speech and Thought in the Battles of Cannae and Zama (Adema); Part 3. Beyond Thermopylae and Cannae; Chapter 13. Thermopylae and Cannae: How One Battle Narrative Enriches Another (de Bakker and van der Keur); Chapter 14. The Great and the Small: Thermopylae and Sphacteria (Rademaker)
- Chapter 15. Force, Frequency and Focalisation: the Function of Similes in the Battle-Narrative of Vergil, Aeneid 10 (Harrison)Chapter 16. Parallel Plotlines: the Function of Similes in the Battle Narrative of Vergil, Aeneid 10 (2) (van der Keur); Index