Josef Fischer
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Edith Hall deposited Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 9 years agoOUP 1989
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Kenneth Mayer deposited “Phrynichus, Pericles, and Praise” in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 9 years agoThucydides’s unusual praise of the Athenian general Phrynichus in 8.27.5 gives insight into how the historian thought and wrote. The praise seems unwarranted in the immediate instance and in light of Phrynichus’s subsequent actions. I argue that the praise seems directed at the manner in which Phrynichus made his decisions, and how Thucydides’s…[Read more]