Ancient Greece: Interpreting Herodotus and Thucydides

Interpretation of Herodotus and Thucydides in the context of the target audience Our view of the historical events of ancient Greece depends largely on the background and interpretation of the chronicle and early ancient historians. It is easy to forget that these texts are written for older readers, and reading over 2000 is a secondary result for their authors. In this article we will explore the motivation of the early historians through their initial target audience.

An innovative way to inherit the historical events of Herodotus and Thucydides and its interpretation was born in the background of a traditional and vibrant ancient Greek culture. A series of literary tips on Homer 's universal influence seen in myths and folklore, early epics, lyrics and epigrams, Herodotus' works, "The wide image of history is like a tragedy of Greece" ( 5) It is clearly related to the relationship between historians and his cultural and literary environment - "My history has been trying to complement the main argument from the beginning" (6) Academic research on the Peloponnesos war , Revealing Thucydides' intensive text and the possible "intertextual" association between those predecessors. A very famous one is a model for many subsequent speech, a perelicle funeral address that was very famous in ancient times.

Interpretation of Herodotus and Thucydides in the context of the target audience Our view of the historical events of ancient Greece depends largely on the background and interpretation of the chronicle and early ancient historians. It is easy to forget that these texts are written for older readers, and reading over 2000 is a secondary result for their authors. Ancient readers] - Thucydides's "righteousness, power, and humanity" and Sophocles' Oedipus play, they communicate the same things using language and speech. The political order in these works is used to form purpose consciousness with their speech, shake political views, and manipulate their own personal interests. In both works Thucydides and Sophocles wrote a speech about ambition.

Any history of ancient Greece requires attention to source warnings. Most of the Greek historians and politicians who survived these works, in particular Herodotus, Tucidides, Xenon, Demostem, Plato, Aristotle, were Athens or parent Athenians. This is why Athens' history and politics are better known than any other city, and there is little knowledge about the history of several cities. In addition, these writers are almost exclusively focused on the history of politics, military and diplomacy, ignoring economic and social history. All the history of ancient Greece must fight these restrictions at its source