Thucydides and Herodotus

ISBN: 9780199593262 出版年：2012 页码：414 Oxford University Press

This book looks at two of the most important ancient Greek historians living in the fifth century bce who are considered to be the founders of the western tradition of historiography. This book examines the relevant relationship between these historians which is considered, especially nowadays, by historians and philologists to be more significant than previously realized. The volume includes an introduction which addresses the changing view of how the historians relate to one another and twelve chapters written by leading experts in the field of ancient history and philology. Nine of the chapters discuss either comprehensive issues pertaining to the historians' relationship or their common themes and practices, while three further chapters discuss the ancient reception of Herodotus and Thucydides and investigate the historians' debt to Homer.