Style and necessity in thucydides
Auteur :
Joho, Tobias
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198812043
Date de publication :
17 nov. 2022
Dimensions :
22,3 x 14,5 x 2,4 cm
Poids :
560 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Thucydides is well known for his fondness for abstract nominal phrases. As Joho shows in this book, these constructions often imply that people are passively exposed to events. Unlike Thucydides' predecessors, however, he anchors necessity not in the divine but in the constraints imposed by human nature.