Review of Kinship in Thucydides: Intercommunal Ties and Historical Narrative. By Maria Fragoulaki. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 443. Hardcover, $150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-9697677-9.

Authors

C. Sydnor Roy, Marshall UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

9-5-2015

Abstract

Excerpt: The most striking feature of Thucydides’ text that Fragoulaki’s monograph brings out is the extent to which the language of kinship infiltrates his narrative of the Peloponnesian War. Fragoulaki offers a hearty reminder that Thucydides provides his readers with much more than analyses of power, stasis, war, justice, and expediency. Much of the language of these analyses points towards the interrelatedness of communities on several levels, and Fragoulaki successfully shows how attention to this interrelatedness brings out the strong emotional undercurrents at work in Thucydides’ text.

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Roy, Sydnor (2015). Review of Kinship in Thucydides: Intercommunal Ties and Historical Narrative. By Maria Fragoulaki. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 443. Hardcover, $150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-9697677-9.