修昔底德:叙述与解释 英文原版 Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation Tim Rood

基本信息

Format Paperback | 352 pages

Dimensions 139 x 215 x 19mm | 438g

Publication date 07 Oct 2004

Publisher Oxford University Press

Language English

ISBN10 0199275858

ISBN13 9780199275854

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

公元前五世纪，修昔底德写道:“战争是一门严酷的学问。”鲁德分析了修昔底德的叙事技巧，通过这些技巧，修昔底德解释了伯罗奔尼撒战争的起源和过程，并揭露了关于个人和国家行为的残酷事实。鲁德专注于研究这些技巧的使用，如选择性，演讲和叙事的互动，时间和视角的操纵，在一个层面上指向一般的人类约束，在另一个层面上指向雅典皇权的自我毁灭。这本书探索了一些很少受到关注的技巧，并提供了阅读其他技巧的新方法；这让人们对修昔底德的世故以及他与前人的关系有了新的认识。该书的重要性还在于它试图驳斥 修昔底德的《历史》是由不同的构图层组成的，或受到亲雅典人的偏见的启发。它直接阐述了现代历史学家使用修昔底德的方式，为当代关于叙事历史的辩论做出了贡献，并显示了将近期叙事理论的一些概念应用于历史文本的价值。

`War is a harsh teache' wrote Thucydides in the fifth-century BC. Rood analyses the techniques through which Thucydides' narrative explains the origin and course of the Peloponnesian War and exposes harsh truths about how individuals and states behave. Rood concentrates on how the use of techniques, such as selectivity, interaction of speech and narrative, and manipulation of time and perspective, points at one level to general human constraints, at another to the self-destructiveness of Athens' imperial power. The book explores some techniques that have received little attention and offers new ways of reading others; it gives new insight into Thucydides' sophistication and the way he relates to his predecessors. It is also important for its attempts to refute views that Thucydides' History is made up of different compositional strata or inspired by pro-Athenian bias. And it addresses directly the way modern historians use Thucydides, contributes to the contemporary debate over narrative history, and shows the value of applying some of the concepts of recent narrative theory to historical texts.

作者简介

蒂姆·鲁德是牛津大学古典语言和文学讲师。

Tim Rood is Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford.