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Kinship in Thucydides : intercommunal ties and historical narrative /

This volume explores the relationship between Thucydides and ancient Greek historiography, sociology, and culture. Drawing on modern anthropological enquiries on kinship and the sociology of ethnicity and emotions, it argues that inter-communal kinship has a far more pervasive importance in Thucydid...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fragoulaki, Maria (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Thucydides. > History of the Peloponnesian War.
Thucydides > Writing skill.
Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
Historiography > Greece > History > To 1500.
Kinship > Greece > History > To 1500.
Historiography
Kinship
Greece
To 1500
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:This volume explores the relationship between Thucydides and ancient Greek historiography, sociology, and culture. Drawing on modern anthropological enquiries on kinship and the sociology of ethnicity and emotions, it argues that inter-communal kinship has a far more pervasive importance in Thucydides than has so far been acknowledged.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780191758386
0191758388