Theatres of War
Thucydidean Topography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20050174 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Funke, Matthias Haake (0000-0002-7019-5793) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Pages | 369-384 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Brill's Companion to Thucydides (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789047404842_015 |
| OpenAlex | W765853399 |
| ISBN | 9789047404842 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Topography, geography and ethnography occupy a small place in Thucydides' work. This chapter takes a quick look at Strabo and Polybius; and helps to put Thucydides' History into perspective as far as geography is concerned. Strabo's idea of a close relationship between geography and historiography goes back directly to Polybius; the geographer placed himself explicitly in the Polybian tradition. Although an examination of Thucydides' work yields a fair number of geographical and topographical indications, the question is not as easy to answer as it is in Polybius' Histories . Unlike Polybius, Thucydides gives no opinion about geography and topography as objects of historiography either in his chapter on methodology or elsewhere. The chapter attempts to define the role of geography and topography in the History , investigating the function of landscape and space as constituents of Thucydides' historiographical staging of the Peloponnesian War. Theaters of war were very much Thucydides' concern. Keywords: Peloponnesian war; Polybius; Strabo; theaters of war; Thucydidean topography
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| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |