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Contents
Preface vii
1 A culture of rhetoric 1
Audiences and genres 1
Rhetorical narrative 5
Attitude and occasion 9
2 Rhetoric and history (415 BC) 18
Thucydides on the Herms and mysteries 18
Andocides 26
Reconstructing mentalities 37
3 How far would they go? Plutarch on Nicias and Alcibiades 44
Plutarch 44
Rewriting Nicias 47
Duplication with a difference: the ostracism of Hyperbolus 49
Alcibiades: dissent and decline 52
Illuminating reception 58
4 Rhetoric and history II: Platnea (431-27 BC) 61
The version of Apollodorus: [Demosthenes] 59 61
Thucydides on Plataea 67
Lesson 1: right and wrong 72
Lesson 2: Plataean citizenship 74
Lesson 3: a matter of motives 77

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Publication Information: Book Title: Literary Texts and the Greek Historian. Contributors: Christopher Pelling - author. Publisher: Routledge. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 2000. Page Number: v.
    
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