16526

,

Darien Shanske

Cambridge University Press,

xii, 268 p. , ill. , 24 cm.

Introduction -- Restoring the wonder of Thucydides -- Theoretical preliminaries -- Short outline -- Thucydidesʹs vision -- Introduction--six features of Thucydidesʹs text -- The first sentence -- The archaeology -- The empire of logos -- What the Athenians did not know -- Thucydides on his method--disclosure about disclosure -- The causes of the war -- Conclusion -- The case of Pericles -- War--Periclesʹs first speech -- Who we are--Periclesʹs funeral oration -- Rhetoric and adversity--Periclesʹs third speech -- Transition--the dissemination of Pericles -- Plague -- Cleon and Diodotus -- Brasidas and Hermocrates -- Nicias and Alcibiades -- Thucydides -- Themistocles -- Identity and disclosure -- Conclusion -- Deinon, logos, and the tragic question concerning the human -- Introduction -- Tragedy -- Introducing the Deinon -- Tragic elements in Thucydides -- Deinon in pretragic literature--summary -- Aeschylus -- Sophocles -- Euripides -- Thucydides revisited (the Deinon and Epieikeia) -- Plato -- Conclusion -- Thucydidean temporality -- Introduction -- The metaphysics of praise--Pericles and Socrates on Athens -- Platoʹs Menexenus -- Thucydides and Plato in the philosophical tradition -- Heraclitus -- Thucydides as a cure for platonism -- Thucydidean realism -- Book eight -- Philosophical implications -- Conclusion -- Appendix one: Restoring key terms 1.1--1.23 -- Unconcealedness (Aletheia) -- What is appropriate (Ta Deonta) -- Pretext (prophasis) -- Compulsion (Ananke) -- Kind (Toioutos) -- Appendix two: Pretragic history of Deinon -- Introduction -- Etymology and history of interpretation -- Homer and Hesiod -- Conclusion -- Appendix three: Wittgenstein on fly-bottles, aspect seeing, and history -- Introduction -- Aspect seeing -- Aspect seeing and history -- Conclusion: Forms of life and logos -- Appendix four: Heidegger on world and originary temporality -- Introduction -- World -- Ontological difference -- Originary temporality -- Phenomenological bestiary -- An internal defense.

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229

.T6,S47

2007

0521864119 (hardback) ,

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-259) and index.

2007