1st Edition
Drama, Oratory and Thucydides in Fifth-Century Athens Teaching Imperial Lessons
By Sophie Mills
Copyright 2020
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study centres on the rhetoric of the Athenian empire, Thucydides’ account of the Peloponnesian War and the notable discrepancies between his assessment of Athens and that found in tragedy, funeral orations and public art. Mills explores the contradiction between Athenian actions and their self-representation, arguing that Thucydides’ highly critical, cynical approach to the Athenian... Read more
1. The Athenian…Empire? 2. Tragedy and Athens: Aeschylus and Sophocles 3. Euripides, Empire and War 4. Aristophanic Archē 5. Thucydides: What Was Really Said? 6. Thucydides’ Athens: Λόγῳ μέν…Ἔργωι δε
Biography
Sophie Mills is Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, USA.
