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"La civilisation de la Grèce classique valorise la liberté avec d'autant plus de force qu'elle repose en partie sur l'esclavage et qu'elle s'est construite en partie par opposition à la Perse soumise au Grand Roi. Ce livre étudie l'interaction de la liberté et de l'esclavage dans les récits des trois historiens Hérodote, Thucydide et Xénophon. Cette dualité traverse leur pensée selon des modalités qui sont analysées systématiquement ici : dissymétries entre l'insistance sur la liberté et le traitement du rôle des esclaves, évolutions internes à l'auteur et selon l'époque, facteurs idéologiques, politiques, littéraires qui influencent le discours historique. Les formes de liberté et d'esclavage engagent la vie dans la cité et les relations internationales, sont collectives ou individuelles, et mènent chez Xénophon à une réflexion post-socratique sur leur sens pour la vie intérieure. En croisant l'analyse de la liberté et celle de l'esclavage dans des études précises de textes, ce livre ouvre des perspectives nouvelles et éclaire en même temps la méthode historique des trois historiens ainsi que leur dialogue intertextuel. Il enrichit ainsi notre compréhension du discours historique dans le passage du Ve au IVe siècle avant notre ère."--P. [4] of cover.

Literature and history --- Slavery --- Liberty in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- History, Ancient --- Littérature et histoire --- Esclavage --- Liberté dans la littérature --- Esclavage dans la littérature --- Histoire ancienne --- History. --- Historiography. --- Histoire --- Historiographie --- Herodotus --- Xenophon --- Thucydides --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Greek literature, Hellenistic --- Greek history (classical period) --- Liberty and slavery in Greek literature --- Liberty and slavery in Greek literature. --- Liberté --- Littérature et histoire --- Liberté dans la littérature --- Esclavage dans la littérature --- Historiographie.

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This volume brings together scholars from various areas (history, philology, linguistics, history of political ideas) and attempts a fresh survey of current trends in the analysis of Thucydides' historical narrative. Individual contributions range from a general outlook of Thucydides' historical and historiographical concepts to detailed analysis of narrative strategies, linguistic features and stylistic devices. Special attention is given to questions such as the representation of character, the role of individuals, the interaction between leaders and masses in Athenian democracy, the construction of speeches in Thucydides' work, etc. The analysis of language, style and narrative properties is related to the construction of meaning according to current standards of textual analysis and interpreation.

Greece -- Historiography. --- Historiography. --- Thucydides -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Thucydides. --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Greece --- Thucydides --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Thucydide --- Thukydides --- Thoukudides --- Historical Representation. --- Interpretation. --- Narrative. --- Thukydides. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- Tucidide --- Fukidid --- Tucídides --- Thoukydidēs --- תוקידידיס --- Θουκυδίδης

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This volume constitutes the first large-scale collaborative reflection on Xenophon’s Anabasis, gathering experts on Greek historiography and Xenophon. It is structured in three sections: the first section provides a linear reading of the Anabasis through chapters on select episodes (from Book 1 through Book 7), including the opening, Cyrus’ characterisation, the meeting of Socrates and Xenophon, Xenophon’s leadership, the marches through Armenia and along the Black Sea coast and the service under Seuthes in Thrace.The second section offers an in-depth exploration of hitherto overlooked recurrent themes. Based on new approaches and scholarly trends, it focuses on topics such as the concept of friendship, the speeches of characters other than Xenophon, the suffering of the human body, the role of rumour and misrepresentation, and the depiction of emotions.The third section offers a more thorough investigation of the manifold reception of this work (in Antiquity, Byzantium, Renaissance, modern period, in cinema studies and illustrations).Finally, in acknowledgement of the Anabasis’ long history as a pedagogical text, the volume contains an envoi on the importance and benefits of teaching Xenophon and the Anabasis, more specifically.

Xenophon. --- Greece --- Iran --- History --- Xénophon,

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Recoupant d’emblée les champs qui seront ceux de la géographie, de l’ethnographie, de l’histoire et même de la philosophie de l’histoire, fascinée à la fois par l’altérité et par la diversité des peuples et des coutumes, l’Enquête hérodotéenne dialogue sans cesse avec les autres genres et les autres modes de pensée que l’Antiquité nous a légués. Après d’autres travaux, individuels et collectifs, ce recueil d’essais a cherché à cerner les modalités et les enjeux de ce dialogue, mais en y ajoutant celui qui s’est instauré entre Hérodote et ses lecteurs, admiratifs ou critiques, de l’Antiquité jusqu’à nos jours. L’Enquête est donc ici mise en rapport avec l’épopée, la pensée ionienne, le théâtre athénien, mais aussi confrontée à des lectures aussi différentes que celles de Lucien dans l’Antiquité, de Montaigne à la Renaissance et, tout près de nous, de Ryszard Kapuściński ou de Claude Lévi-Strauss. Qu’il s’agisse des grandes questions anthropologiques posées par tout effort de compréhension et de représentation de l’autre ou des choix narratifs qu’implique toute tentative d’écrire l’histoire, cet éclairage pluriel témoigne de l’actualité sans cesse renouvelée de l’entreprise hérodotéenne.

Herodotus. --- Herodotus --- Criticism and interpretation. --- History, Ancient --- Historiography --- Criticism and interpretation --- History, Ancient - Historiography --- Herodotus - History --- Herodotus - Criticism and interpretation --- Historiographie --- Histoire. --- Hérodote, --- History --- histoire hellénique --- historiographie --- historien --- récit --- Antiquité

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Although scholars continue to address old questions about Polybius, it is clear that they are also turning their attention to aspects of his history that have been inadequately dealt with in the past or have even gone largely unnoticed. Polybius' history is increasingly treated not just as a source of valuable information on the impressive expansion of Roman rule in the Mediterranean world, but also as a complex and nuanced narrative with its own interests and purposes. Moreover, since (apart from Livy's use of Polybius, which has been thoroughly discussed) most studies of Polybius' reception focus on the modern world, especially in relation to the theory of mixed constitutions, finding out more about Polybius' impact on ancient Greek and Roman authors remains a major desideratum. This volume brings together contributions which, in either posing new questions or reformulating old ones, attest both to the ardent scholarly interest currently directed toward Polybius and to the variety of hermeneutical issues raised by his work. Subjects discussed include Polybius' historical ideas, his methods of composition, his views on the role of the historian, his representation of cultural difference, his intertextual affinities, and his reception and influence. Taken together, the papers in this collection attempt to promote a deeper understanding of the qualities and peculiarities of Polybius' history, as well as to offer fresh insights into the interpretation of this important work.