Speaking the Same Language: Speech and Audience in Thucydides' Spartan Debates
de Paula Debnar
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- Tapa dura
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- Like new/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0472112368
- ISBN 13
- 9780472112364
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Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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The University of Michigan Press, 2002. Hardcover. Like new/Very good. Like new hardcover with black cloth to boards and silver lettering to spine. Very good dust jacket with 2 small closed tears. Jacket has been placed in a protective cover. 8vo (6 x 1 x 9 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes a bibliography, index of Greek terms, and a general index. 264 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The Peloponnesian War, which destroyed imperial Athens and ultimately Sparta as well, continues to fascinate students of history, politics, and human nature. Thucydides' account of the twenty-seven-year conflict charts the opposition between the two great powers of the classical Greek world and the ways of life they represented. Paula Debnar explores the collapse of these powers from a new perspective, examining the ways discourse changed under the strain of a long and costly war.
Speaking the Same Language seeks to recover the role played by the audiences within the History. By restoring the internal audiences to a more prominent place, Debnar emphasizes the perspective of the participants in the war and heightens the dramatic immediacy of the debates. She thoroughly analyzes twelve speeches delivered by or to the Spartans, demonstrating how the earlier speeches illustrate the role of discourse in the construction of Sparta's identity and the unification of her Dorian allies in the face of their primarily Ionian adversaries.
Combining close textual analysis with an examination of narrative and historical context, Debnar bridges the gap between literary and historical studies of Thucydides. Accessible to specialists and nonspecialists alike, her work will interest those working in the fields of Greek literature, ancient historiography, rhetoric, political science, and ethnic studies.
Paula Debnar is Associate Professor of Classics, Mount Holyoke College.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The Peloponnesian War, which destroyed imperial Athens and ultimately Sparta as well, continues to fascinate students of history, politics, and human nature. Thucydides' account of the twenty-seven-year conflict charts the opposition between the two great powers of the classical Greek world and the ways of life they represented. Paula Debnar explores the collapse of these powers from a new perspective, examining the ways discourse changed under the strain of a long and costly war.
Speaking the Same Language seeks to recover the role played by the audiences within the History. By restoring the internal audiences to a more prominent place, Debnar emphasizes the perspective of the participants in the war and heightens the dramatic immediacy of the debates. She thoroughly analyzes twelve speeches delivered by or to the Spartans, demonstrating how the earlier speeches illustrate the role of discourse in the construction of Sparta's identity and the unification of her Dorian allies in the face of their primarily Ionian adversaries.
Combining close textual analysis with an examination of narrative and historical context, Debnar bridges the gap between literary and historical studies of Thucydides. Accessible to specialists and nonspecialists alike, her work will interest those working in the fields of Greek literature, ancient historiography, rhetoric, political science, and ethnic studies.
Paula Debnar is Associate Professor of Classics, Mount Holyoke College.
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- Librería
- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 200573
- Título
- Speaking the Same Language: Speech and Audience in Thucydides' Spartan Debates
- Autor
- Paula Debnar
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0472112368
- ISBN 13
- 9780472112364
- Editorial
- The University of Michigan Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Ann Arbor:
- Fecha de publicación
- 2002
- Palabras clave
- Sparta, Thucydides, speech, literary criticism, classical literature,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Classical Literature;
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