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Style and Necessity in Thucydides by TOBIAS. JOHO is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Ancient literary critics were struck by what they described as Thucydides' "nominal style," a term that refers to Thucydides' fondness for abstract nominal phrases. As this book shows, Thucydides frequently uses these phrases instead of approximately synonymous verbal and personal constructions. These stylistic choices tend to deemphasize human agency: people find themselves in a passive role, exposed to incidents happening to them rather than being actively in charge of events. Thus, the analys
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- TOBIAS. JOHO
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192540034
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Literary Collections, Historiography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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