Drama, Oratory and Thucydides in Fifth-Century Athens: Teaching Imperial Lessons [1° ed.] 0815365926, 9780815365921
This study centres on the rhetoric of the Athenian empire, Thucydides’ account of the Peloponnesian War and the notable
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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
1 The Athenian . . . empire?
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Empire and rhetoric
1.3 Source problems and Athenian imperial rhetoric
1.4 “I would annex the planets if I could” (Cecil Rhodes)
1.5 “An empire exempt from all natural causes of decay” (Lord Macaulay)
1.6 “Imperious, irrepressible necessities of life”
1.7 “We do our humble best to retain by justice what we may have won by the sword”
1.8 The seductions of empire
2 Tragedy and Athens: Aeschylus and Sophocles
2.1 Introduction: Athens in and out of disaster
2.2 Aeschylus’ Persians
2.3 Aeschylus’ Eumenides
2.4 Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus
3 Euripides, empire and war
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Heraclidae
3.3 Suppliants
3.4 Heracles
3.5 Peirithous and Theseus
3.6 Ion
3.7 Erechtheus
3.8 Hippolytus
3.9 Trojan Women
4 Aristophanic Archē
4.1 Comedy, truth and Athens
4.2 Remnants of the ideal
4.3 Wasps
4.4 Acharnians
4.5 Knights
4.6 Peace
4.7 Birds
5 Thucydides: what was really said?
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Thucydides’ methods
5.3 Thucydides and mythology
5.4 Believing Thucydides
6 Thucydides’ Athens: Λόγῳ μέν . . . Ἔργῳι δέ
6.1 Book one
6.2 Book two
6.3 Book three
6.4 Book five
6.5 Book six
6.6 Book seven
Bibliography
Index
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
1 The Athenian . . . empire?
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Empire and rhetoric
1.3 Source problems and Athenian imperial rhetoric
1.4 “I would annex the planets if I could” (Cecil Rhodes)
1.5 “An empire exempt from all natural causes of decay” (Lord Macaulay)
1.6 “Imperious, irrepressible necessities of life”
1.7 “We do our humble best to retain by justice what we may have won by the sword”
1.8 The seductions of empire
2 Tragedy and Athens: Aeschylus and Sophocles
2.1 Introduction: Athens in and out of disaster
2.2 Aeschylus’ Persians
2.3 Aeschylus’ Eumenides
2.4 Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus
3 Euripides, empire and war
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Heraclidae
3.3 Suppliants
3.4 Heracles
3.5 Peirithous and Theseus
3.6 Ion
3.7 Erechtheus
3.8 Hippolytus
3.9 Trojan Women
4 Aristophanic Archē
4.1 Comedy, truth and Athens
4.2 Remnants of the ideal
4.3 Wasps
4.4 Acharnians
4.5 Knights
4.6 Peace
4.7 Birds
5 Thucydides: what was really said?
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Thucydides’ methods
5.3 Thucydides and mythology
5.4 Believing Thucydides
6 Thucydides’ Athens: Λόγῳ μέν . . . Ἔργῳι δέ
6.1 Book one
6.2 Book two
6.3 Book three
6.4 Book five
6.5 Book six
6.6 Book seven
Bibliography
Index
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