Browsing by Author "Bruzzone, Rachel"

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Herodotus and history
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-06-17) Bruzzone, Rachel
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Inheriting war in Thucydides
(Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 2021) Bruzzone, Rachel
This article argues that Thucydides represents the story of the Eurypontid Spartan kings, Archidamus and Agis, as a coherent, meaningful narrative spanning his text. Early on, Archidamus worries that his generation might leave war to their children as a kind of inheritance. His son Agis then does inherit the war, more literally than any other figure. The consequences of this malign bequest become clear as Agis comes to violate the traditional value system represented by his father. Formal naming of both men throughout their stories encourages the reader to view their appearances not as a series of isolated events but as a single narrative depicting the corruption of their family.
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Introduction: war and its narratives
(Sciendo, 2021) Bruzzone, Rachel
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Thucydides' Great Harbor battle as literary tomb
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018) Bruzzone, Rachel
This article argues that Thucydides' Great Harbor scene (Th. 7.69-71) recalls the imagery of the public funerary monuments of this time. Internal focalization encourages the reader to visualize a conflict which remains fixed at a moment of peak strain for a long period in a densely crowded field, the historian directing the reader's attention to one individual conflict after another, an experience much like viewing a frieze. Internal viewers, meanwhile, wail and lament. This ersatz funerary monument complements Nicias' pre-battle harangue, which has long been recognized as unsettlingly funerary, to memorialize men who soon will lie unburied.