Texts of religious content in Thucydides and the implied ancient reader
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9346599 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vasileios Liotsakis (0000-0002-7469-9630, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 143 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 278-317 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-6220 • E-ISSN: 2785-0773 |
| Publisher | Loescher (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.1484/j.rfic.5.123342 |
| OpenAlex | W2517316125 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In this paper I elaborate on the very issue of ‘Thucydides and religion’ from the ancient reader’s perspective. Stepping on the concept of the ‘implied reader’, introduced by the reader-response criticism, I am trying to explain that the ancients grasped the supernatural dimension of Thucydides’ History more than we nowadays do. Specifically, I focus on three test cases, the plague excursus (2, 47-54), the siege of Plataea (2, 71-78) and the narrative in 3, 104-5, 32, 1 concerning the Athenian greed. I am trying to construct the implied ancient reader on the basis of ancient - literary or not - sources
Ancient history · Art · Construct (python library · Content (measure theory · Criticism · Dimension (graph theory · Focus (optics · Literature · Narrative · Perspective (graphical · Plague (disease · Siege · Visual arts · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |