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Viggiano, Gregory Francis.

Unreported speeches and selection in Thucydides (Greece).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Unreported speeches and selection in Thucydides (Greece).
Author:	Viggiano, Gregory Francis.
Description:	165 p.
Notes:	Director: Donald Kagan.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4014.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-11A.
Subject:	Literature, Classical.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3194719
ISBN:	9780542395000

Unreported speeches and selection in Thucydides (Greece).
Viggiano, Gregory Francis.

Unreported speeches and selection in Thucydides (Greece). - 165 p.

Director: Donald Kagan.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2005.

For centuries, scholars have questioned the veracity of the speeches Thucydides includes in his History. How readers answer that question is essential for any serious interpretation of the Peloponnesian War. I interpret Thucydides' controversial statement in 1.22.1 to mean that the speeches contain the actual arguments, if not the exact words, delivered by real speakers in the historical circumstances he describes. Therefore, I explore not what Thucydides does with the words of particular speakers, but why in significant instances he chose the speeches he reported and omitted others for which he had sufficient information. I begin with an analysis of the historian's programmatic statement and go on to explain my methodology for the dissertation. The study then proceeds to four test-cases. The areas of the History I examine include the discussions concerning the Corcyrean alliance (433), the Megarian Decree (433/2), the peace negotiations with Sparta (430), and the Mytilene debate (427). Each chapter identifies instances where Thucydides excluded significant speeches from his account. Working from the evidence of Thucydides' text, the plays of Aristophanes, fragments from Old Comedy, Plutarch's Lives and Diodorus, I propose plausible reconstructions of the omitted material and suggest reasons for the historian's selection. The dissertation seeks to demonstrate the selection process of Thucydides and to illuminate the understanding of the Peloponnesian War he wanted to convey to his readers. In the sections I examine, the historian rigorously chose those speeches that emphasized the impersonal forces he believed brought on the war and minimized the internal politics and factional strife that might have implicated Pericles. Thucydides' selection of speeches also enabled him to present the policies of Pericles and those of his successors, such as Cleon, in what he considered the correct light without resorting to invention.

ISBN: 9780542395000Subjects--Topical Terms:

226952
Literature, Classical.

Unreported speeches and selection in Thucydides (Greece).
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