The Blinded Eye
Thucydides and the New Written Word
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9296646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Romm (corresponding author), Gregory Crane (0000-0001-6847-2811) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-52 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical World (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8418 • E-ISSN: 1558-9234 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4352186 |
| OpenAlex | W607243708 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
Thucydides, the patron saint of Realpolitik, continues to be read in many fields outside of classics. Why did his History succeed in setting the pattern for future scholars where Hereodotus's earlier Histories failed? In this fascinating study of the construction of intellectual authority, Gregory Crane argues that Thucydides was successful for two reasons. First, he refined the language of administration: Who was in charge? How much money was spent? How many people were killed? Second, he drew upon the abstract philosophical rhetoric developing in the fifth century, one in which the state and the public, rather than the family and the individual, stand at the center of the world. Ironically, it was through deeply personal alliances that aristocratic Greeks had defined themselves and exerted power. Thucydides's discursive practice was therefore fundamentally incompatible with his ideological goals
Linguistics · Word (group theory · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Philosophy
Tucídides 1.22
Herodotus and the 1919–1922 Greco-Turkish War
Herodotus as Anti-classical Toolbox
From Ethnography to History
Two Victorian Egypts of Herodotus
Herodotus’s Travels in Britain and Beyond
George Grote and the ‘Open-hearted Herodotus’
‘Romantic Poet-Sage of History’
Herodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century
Imagining Empire through Herodotus
Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History
Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus
The Talking Greeks
The Verb Katalegein in Herodotus
A retórica do método (Tucídides I.22 e II.35)
Razão, cegueira e mito
Genealogy in the development of ancient historiography
New Worlds from Old Texts
Lessons of Fear
The Diseased Body Politic, Athenian Public Finance, and the Massacre at Mykalessos (Thucydides 7.27–29)
Things of the Past
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2022 (25) |
| Highly cited | No |