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Book SynopsisIn this collected volume fourteen experts in the fields of Classics and Ancient History study the textual strategies used by Herodotus and Livy when recounting the disastrous battles at Thermopylae and Cannae. Literary, linguistic and historical approaches are used (often in combination) in order to enhance and enrich the interpretation of the accounts, which for obvious reasons confronted the authors with a special challenge. Chapters drawing a comparison with other battle narratives and with other genres help to establish genre-specific elements in ancient historiography, and draw attention to the particular techniques employed by Herodotus and Livy in their war narratives.
Trade Review"[T]his volume contains many substantial papers and reflects high standards of scholarship: in addition to examining their chosen themes, many of the papers offer wider reflection on methodological questions. The introduction likewise introduces methodological considerations, providing a short introduction to narratology and discourse linguistics. (...) this volume, which will prove useful to scholars examining the Thermopylae and Cannae narratives from a large variety of perspectives." Edith Foster, BMCR, 2019.11.15.
Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Lidewij van Gils, Irene de Jong and Caroline Kroon Part 1 Thermopylae 2 Thermopylae: Herodotus versus the Legend Hans van Wees 3 A Narratological Comparison of Herodotus and Diodorus on Thermopylae Mathieu de Bakker 4 Narrative and Identity in Thermopylae (Herodotus 7.201–7.239) Antonis Tsakmakis 5 Herodotus’ Handling of (Narratological) Time in the Thermopylae Passage Irene J.F. de Jong 6 Herodotus and Thucydides: Distance and Immersion Rutger Allan Part 2 Cannae 7 Livy on Cannae: a Literary Overview Stephen Oakley 8 Discourse-Linguistic Strategies in Livy’s Account of the Battle at Cannae Lidewij van Gils and Caroline Kroon 9 Who Knows What Will Happen Next? Livy’s fraus Punica from a Literary Point of View Dennis Pausch 10 Livy’s Use of Spatial References in the Cannae Episode: from Structure to Strategy Lidewij van Gils 11 ET RATIO ET RES: Characterization of Roman Conduct through Speech Representation in the Battle of Cannae Michel Buijs 12 Words When It’s Time for Action: Representations of Speech and Thought in the Battles of Cannae and Zama Suzanne Adema Part 3 Beyond Thermopylae and Cannae 13 Thermopylae and Cannae: How One Battle Narrative Enriches Another Mathieu de Bakker and Michiel van der Keur 14 The Great and the Small: Thermopylae and Sphacteria Adriaan Rademaker 15 Force, Frequency and Focalisation: the Function of Similes in the Battle Narrative of Vergil, Aeneid 10 Stephen Harrison 16 Parallel Plotlines: the Function of Similes in the Battle-Narrative of Vergil, Aeneid 10 (2) Michiel van der Keur Index
