Thucydideses

Authorship, anachrony, and anachronism in Greek historiography

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9307397
AutoresEmily Greenwood (0000-0003-0677-7649, Yale University, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume12
Fascículo1
Páginas32-45
Data de publicação2019-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoClassical Receptions Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1759-5134 • E-ISSN: 1759-5142
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/crj/clz020
OpenAlexW2997819227
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas35

This article revisits the theme of temporality in ancient Greek historiography through the lens of the Byzantine Histories of Laonikos Chalkokondyles, who fastened onto the device of the anachronic, proleptic future in Herodotus and Thucydides to license his apparently anachronistic device of writing in the language and persona of both, eighteen centuries after they wrote. In Laonikos’ account, his narrative is part of the future of ‘Greek’ history anticipated by Herodotus and Thucydides. Laonikos’ clever assimilation of Herodotus and Thucydides sheds new light on Thucydides’ own reduplication of himself to project an authorial and textual future. This strong, anachronic move has made Thucydides’ work assimilable by future readers and also opened up the work to the contingencies of reception, with its potential for anachronism

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