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A Suggested Characteristic in Thukydides' Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

G. B. Grundy
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The matter of this paper has been a subject of consideration with me for some time past, and I venture to put forward the conclusion I have arrived at, not because I consider it to be a certain one, but as possibly affording a working hypothesis providing an explanation of what has been to me, and may have been to others, an obscure and difficult point. That the subject demands the earnest attention of those who study Thukydides will, I think, be generally admitted, and this, together with the fact that I have formed the conclusion on a certain amount of first-hand experience, may afford some excuse for the publication of my views.

The vast majority of the incidents in the Peloponnesian War are treated by Thukydides with great brevity, in some cases with a brevity disproportionate to their importance. There are, however, according to the ordinary acceptation, three incidents into which he enters with a peculiar and striking amount of detail.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 18 , November 1898 , pp. 218 - 231
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1898

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page 219 note 1 The earliest example in the Greek world, and this is by no means fully authenticated, is the reported use of siege engines by Perikles at the siege of Samos, v. Diod. xii. 28 and Plut., Perik. 27Google Scholar. Both passages are from Ephoros.