This book analyzes the narrative technique of Thucydides, relating his shifting uses of various techniques to his explanatory aims, and showing how he narrates the progression of one war and at the same time exposes various truths about the human condition.

Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation (Oxford Classical Monographs)

Literature & Fiction

Rood, Tim

History & Criticism

Clarendon Press

This book analyzes the narrative technique of Thucydides, the historian of the war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC. It relates his shifting uses of various techniques to his explanatory aims, and shows how he narrates the progression of one war and at the same time exposes various truths about the human condition.

Oxford University Press

The Marines' march up to Baghdad; Sherman's trail of destruction in Georgia; an army of Missouri volunteers trekking across the Great Plains to Mexico - this wide-ranging and imaginative book tells for the first time the story of how American armies from the sands of Iraq to the halls of the Montezumas have followed figuratively in the footsteps of the original 'Anabasis', the famous Greek march into the interior of Asia made by Xenophon and the Ten Thousand in 400 BC. Starting with the Iraq War, Tim Rood turns back to the conquest of the American West and to the Civil War, showing how one of the most famous episodes in classical antiquity was first appropriated in the name of military expansion, and then used to express conficting responses to the most controversial campaign of the Civil War. Allusions to Xenophon in speeches, newspapers reports, and military memoirs are throughout read against Xenophon's own story. Taking in American culture from the fiction of Thomas Wolfe to the drawings of Cy Twombly, 'American Anabasis' will be of interest to anyone who wants to discover why Xenophon's classical story has proved so rich a symbol for the American journey.

American Anabasis

History

Americas

Gerald Duckwort

Anachronism and Antiquity

This book is a study both of anachronism in antiquity and of anachronism as a vehicle for understanding antiquity. It explores the post-classical origins and changing meanings of the term 'anachronism' as well as the presence of anachronism in all its forms in classical literature, criticism and material objects. Contrary to the position taken by many modern philosophers of history, this book argues that classical antiquity had a rich and varied understanding of historical difference, which is reflected in sophisticated notions of anachronism. This central hypothesis is tested by an examination of attitudes to temporal errors in ancient literary texts and chronological writings and by analysing notions of anachronistic survival and multitemporality. Rather than seeing a sense of anachronism as something that separates modernity from antiquity, the book suggests that in both ancient writings and their modern receptions chronological rupture can be used as a way of creating a dialogue between past and present. With a selection of case-studies and theoretical discussions presented in a manner suitable for scholars and students both of classical antiquity and of modern history, anthropology, and visual culture, the book's ambition is to offer a new conceptual map of antiquity through the notion of anachronism.

Phillips, Tom

Atack, Carol

Bloomsbury Academic

This book is a study both of anachronism in antiquity and of anachronism as a vehicle for understanding antiquity. It explores the post-classical origins and changing meanings of the term 'anachronism' as well as the presence of anachronism in all its forms in classical literature, criticism and material objects. Contrary to the position taken by many modern philosophers of history, this book argues that classical antiquity had a rich and varied understanding of historical difference, which is reflected in sophisticated notions of anachronism. 
This central hypothesis is tested by an examination of attitudes to temporal errors in ancient literary texts and chronological writings and by analysing notions of anachronistic survival and multitemporality. Rather than seeing a sense of anachronism as something that separates modernity from antiquity, the book suggests that in both ancient writings and their modern receptions chronological rupture can be used as a way of creating a dialogue between past and present. With a selection of case-studies and theoretical discussions presented in a manner suitable for scholars and students both of classical antiquity and of modern history, anthropology, and visual culture, the book's ambition is to offer a new conceptual map of antiquity through the notion of anachronism.

A history of the legacy of the famous "Thalatta! Thalatta!" shout uttered by the famous Ten Thousand army of Greek mercenaries traces how the cry has played a lasting role in European and American cultural traditions throughout the past two hundred years.

The Sea! the Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination

Ancient Civilizations

The Overlook Press

The Sea! The Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination

Reference

Overlook Books

Investigates the influence of the famous Greek classic on American military and political culture, in a reverse chronological history that examines key campaigns in the Iraq War, the conquest of the American West and the Civil War. By the author of The Sea! The Sea!

American Anabasis: Xenophon and the Idea of America from the Mexican War to Iraq

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Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation (Oxford Classical Monographs)

Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation (Oxford Classical Monographs)

American Anabasis

Anachronism and Antiquity

Anachronism and Antiquity

The Sea! the Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination

The Sea! The Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination

American Anabasis: Xenophon and the Idea of America from the Mexican War to Iraq