Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Context and Method
- Part II Themes and Content
- Part III After Thucydides
- 15 Thucydides in Greek and Roman Historiography
- 16 Thucydides in Byzantium
- 17 Thucydides in the Renaissance and Reformation
- 18 Narratives of Thucydides and the 19th-Century Discipline of (Ancient) History
- 19 ‘What Really Happened’
- 20 Translating Thucydides
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
16 - Thucydides in Byzantium
from Part III - After Thucydides
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023
- The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Context and Method
- Part II Themes and Content
- Part III After Thucydides
- 15 Thucydides in Greek and Roman Historiography
- 16 Thucydides in Byzantium
- 17 Thucydides in the Renaissance and Reformation
- 18 Narratives of Thucydides and the 19th-Century Discipline of (Ancient) History
- 19 ‘What Really Happened’
- 20 Translating Thucydides
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
Summary
This chapter discusses responses to Thucydides’ History in the thousand-year period between the foundation of Constantinople in 330 CE and the appearance of the first translations of Thucydides in the late 14th century. The chapter describes the processes by which the text was preserved and transmitted and how it was read and understood in this period. It also explores the question of why the Byzantines were interested in Thucydides and the creative ways in which some Byzantine authors adapted or redeployed Thucydides’ work in their own writing.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides , pp. 249 - 264Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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