Thucydides' Mytilenean Debate: Fifth Century Rhetoric and its Representation

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" Thucydides' Mytilenean Debate: Fifth Century Rhetoric and its Representation "
McDonagh, Fergal

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	937134
Doc. No	:	LA7zv7f9zs
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	McDonagh, Fergal
Title & Author	:	Thucydides' Mytilenean Debate: Fifth Century Rhetoric and its Representation [Article]\ McDonagh, Fergal
Title of Periodical	:	Berkeley Undergraduate Journal of Classics
Volume/ Issue Number	:	2/1
Date	:	2013
Abstract	:	The paper will explain the significant contribution that Thucydides’ Mytilenean Debate makes to our understanding of fifth-century rhetoric and its representation: firstly, by vindicating Thucydides’ controversial methodology in his representation of speeches, of which this debate is paradigmatic; secondly, by illustrating the influence that the tradition of model forensic speeches had on these deliberative ones in form and content (i.e. arguments); and thirdly, by demonstrating the ambiguity of rhetoric’s dangerously powerful role in the political decision-making in Athens.