TY - BOOK ID - 77865265 TI - Thucydides' war narrative PY - 2005 SN - 9786612357473 1282357476 0520930975 159875940X 9780520930971 1423745442 9781423745440 9781282357471 9780520241275 0520241274 PB - Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - HISTORY / Ancient / General. KW - Thucydides. KW - Greece KW - History KW - Historiography. KW - Thucydides. -- History of the Peloponnesian War.. KW - Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.. KW - Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. -- Historiography. KW - aegean war. KW - alcibiades. KW - ancient greece. KW - archidamian. KW - argos. KW - athens. KW - brasidas. KW - chios. KW - classical history. KW - classical studies. KW - community. KW - delos. KW - diplomacy. KW - heroes. KW - historiography. KW - history. KW - interregnum. KW - ionia. KW - lacedaemonians. KW - locrian. KW - melos. KW - military history. KW - military. KW - narrative structure. KW - narrative technique. KW - narrative theory. KW - narrative. KW - nonfiction. KW - peace. KW - peloponnesian war. KW - sicily. KW - thucydides. KW - unit of action. KW - war. KW - warriors. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77865265 AB - As a sustained analysis of the connections between narrative structure and meaning in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Carolyn Dewald's study revolves around a curious aspect of Thucydides' work: the first ten years of the war's history are formed on principles quite different from those shaping the years that follow. Although aspects of this change in style have been recognized in previous scholarship, Dewald has rigorously analyzed how its various elements are structured, used, and related to each other. Her study argues that these changes in style and organization reflect how Thucydides' own understanding of the war changed over time. Throughout, however, the History's narrative structure bears witness to Thucydides' dialogic efforts to depict the complexities of rational choice and behavior on the part of the war's combatants, as well as his own authorial interest in accuracy of representation. In her introduction and conclusion, Dewald explores some ways in which details of style and narrative structure are central to the larger theoretical issue of history's ability to meaningfully represent the past. She also surveys changes in historiography in the past quarter-century and considers how Thucydidean scholarship has reflected and responded to larger cultural trends. ER -