{"product_id":"textual-strategies-in-ancient-war-narrative-thermopylae-cannae-and-beyond-9789004383333","title":"Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative: Thermopylae, Cannae and Beyond","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210761298263,"sku":"9789004383333","price":139.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/textual-strategies-in-ancient-war-narrative-thermopylae-cannae-and-beyond-9789004383333","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}