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Kinship in Thucydides - Intercommunal Ties and Historical Narrative (Hardcover)
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Kinship in Thucydides - Intercommunal Ties and Historical Narrative (Hardcover)
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This volume explores the relationship between Thucydides and
ancient Greek historiography, sociology, and culture. Presenting a
new interpretation of the Peloponnesian War and its historian, it
focuses on the role of emotions and ethics in the context of
political history and ethnic conflicts. Drawing on modern
anthropological enquiries on kinship and the sociology of ethnicity
and emotions, and on scholarly work on kinship diplomacy and Greek
ethnicity, it argues that inter-communal kinship has a far more
pervasive importance in Thucydides than has so far been
acknowledged. Through close readings and contextualization of a
variety of sources, Fragoulaki discusses the various ways in which
ancient Greek communities could be related to each other
(colonization, genealogies, belonging to the same ethnic group,
socio-cultural symbols, political mechanisms, and institutions) and
the largely cultural, emotional, and ethical expression of these
ties. Through new readings of the History, such topics as
Thucydides' narrative technique, his challenging silences, his
interaction with other genres, and his intense engagement with
Herodotus are dissected and discussed - offering a new appreciation
of his unique contribution to historiography.
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