Jowett’s Thucydides: A corpus-based analysis of translation as political intervention

Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War is a key text in the classical Greek canon and an important source of insights into the structures and tensions at the heart of ancient Athenian democracy. Consequently, modern interpretations of his analysis have repeatedly played a major role in shaping debates on the viability and desirability of democratic rule. This paper aims to build on previous discussion of Benjamin Jowett's 1881 translation of Thucydides by applying a comparative corpus-based methodology to explore how this translator's own personal politics shaped his re-presentation of this text. The analysis reveals a striking emphasis on the position and activity of democratic leaders throughout Jowett’s version, strongly consistent with the ideology of leadership that he developed during his career as Master of Balliol College, Oxford

Social Class

Discussion of class structure in fifth-century Athens, historical constitution of theater audiences, and the changes in the comic representation of class antagonism from Aristophanes to Menander

A reaction to gunter's look at Hekatomnid patronage from Labraunda

The article is a reply to Ann Gunter, REA 87 (1985) 113-124. It is shown : (I) That contrary to what Gunter alleges, the picture of the Hekatomnids offered in the author's Mausolus (Oxford, 1982) fully recognises that the dynasty's activity did not straightforwardly tend in the direction of hellenisation. For instance, "Karianisation" was also in evidence. (II) That the possibility of Persian influence on the Hekatomnids was allowed for in Mausolus. (Ill) That one of Gunter's own new suggestions, viz. that the Hekatomnids were active patrons at Delphi, will not stand.L'article est une réponse à Ann Gunter, REA 87 (1985) 113-124, et montre que (I) contrairement à ce qu'allègue Gunter, l'auteur de Mausolus (Oxford, 1982) reconnaît pleinement que l'activité de la dynastie hécatomnide n'a pas tendu, d'une façon simple, vers l'hellénisation. Par exemple, la "Carianisation" est aussi en évidence. (II) Que la possibilité que les Perses achéménides ont exercé une influence sur les Hécatomnides est admise dans Mausolus. (III) Qu'une des suggestions nouvelles dans l'article de Gunter, c'est-à-dire que les Hécatomnides étaient patrons actifs à Delphes, n'emporte pas conviction.Hornblower Simon. A reaction to gunter's look at Hekatomnid patronage from Labraunda. In: Revue des Études Anciennes. Tome 92, 1990, n°1-2. pp. 137-139

Thucydides’ awareness of herodotus or. Herodotus’ awareness of thucydides?

This volume, like the conference from which it derives, is devoted to the reception of Thucydides. The first phase of that reception is in many ways the hardest for us to evaluate, that is, Thucydides’reception by his own contemporaries, and by the writers of the first few decades of the fourth century. My concern in this paper is with an undoubted contemporary, none other than Herodotus. I shall consider the possibility that Herodotus knew of Thucydides’ work, rather than the other way round..