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- catalog abstract "Thucydides, the patron saint of realpolitik, continues to be read in many fields outside of classics. Why did his History succeed in setting the pattern for future scholars where Herodotus's earlier Histories failed? In this fascinating study of the construction of intellectual authority, Gregory Crane argues that Thucydides was successful for two reasons. First, he refined the language of administration: Who was in charge? How much money was spent? How many people were killed? Second, he drew upon the abstract philosophical rhetoric developing in the fifth century, in which the state and the public, rather than the family and the individual, stand at the center of the world. Ironically, it was through deeply personal alliances that aristocratic Greeks had traditionally defined themselves and exerted power. Thucydides's discursive practice was therefore fundamentally incompatible with his ideological goals. Crane hypothesizes that the resulting tension may have been what kept Thucydides from completing his work.".
- catalog contributor b9023415.
- catalog coverage "Greece Historiography.".
- catalog coverage "Greece History Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. Historiography.".
- catalog coverage "Greece Intellectual life.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and index.".
- catalog description "Thucydides, the patron saint of realpolitik, continues to be read in many fields outside of classics. Why did his History succeed in setting the pattern for future scholars where Herodotus's earlier Histories failed? In this fascinating study of the construction of intellectual authority, Gregory Crane argues that Thucydides was successful for two reasons. First, he refined the language of administration: Who was in charge? How much money was spent? How many people were killed? Second, he drew upon the abstract philosophical rhetoric developing in the fifth century, in which the state and the public, rather than the family and the individual, stand at the center of the world. Ironically, it was through deeply personal alliances that aristocratic Greeks had traditionally defined themselves and exerted power. Thucydides's discursive practice was therefore fundamentally incompatible with his ideological goals. Crane hypothesizes that the resulting tension may have been what kept Thucydides from completing his work.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 277 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Blinded eye.".
- catalog identifier "0847681297 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0847681300 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0847681300 (pbk.: alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Blinded eye.".
- catalog isPartOf "Greek studies".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng grc".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,".
- catalog relation "Blinded eye.".
- catalog spatial "Greece Historiography.".
- catalog spatial "Greece History Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. Historiography.".
- catalog spatial "Greece Intellectual life.".
- catalog spatial "Greece.".
- catalog subject "938/.05/072 20".
- catalog subject "Greek prose literature Criticism, Textual.".
- catalog subject "PA4461 .C73 1995".
- catalog subject "PA4461 .C73 1996".
- catalog subject "Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War Criticism, Textual.".
- catalog subject "Written communication Greece.".
- catalog title "The blinded eye : Thucydides and the new written word / Gregory Crane.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".