Thucydides' Great Harbor battle as literary tomb

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buir.contributor.authorBruzzone, Rachel
dc.citation.epage604en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber4en_US
dc.citation.spage577en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber139en_US
dc.contributor.authorBruzzone, Rachelen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-21T16:07:33Z
dc.date.available2019-02-21T16:07:33Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.departmentProgram in Cultures, Civilization and Ideasen_US
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.identifier.doi10.1353/ajp.2018.0037
dc.identifier.issn0002-9475
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/50370
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University Press
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2018.0037
dc.source.titleAmerican Journal of Philologyen_US
dc.titleThucydides' Great Harbor battle as literary tomben_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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