Greek prose usage : a companion to Greek prose composition by G.S. Thompson
By G.S. Thompson
First released in 1955, it is a concise but accomplished advisor to the syntax of Attic Greek as written through Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato and Demosthenes.
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At the core of the Greek section, we may safely assume, would reside Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon, with Polybius close by. Interestingly enough, however, in his extant writings Tacitus finds no occasion to mention any of these authors (Xenophon is mentioned once, as a philosopher, at D. 6); and his debt to the Greek historiographical tradition has never been fully explored – largely because it is not at all clear how great that debt is (in distinct contrast to his predecessors Sallust and Livy, whose respective debt to Thucydides and Herodotus is mentioned explicitly by Quintilian, Inst.
Badian (1966) 6. See Ogilvie and Richmond (1967) on Agr. 1 (where their reference should be corrected to Cato fr. 2P = 2C); Syme (1958a) 121. See also below, pp. 175–6. 19 A . M. 10 Tacitus’ familiarity with the annalists may be detected in other ways as well. 32. Here he draws a distinction between the sort of ‘battlefield and forum’ historiography characteristic of most pre-Augustan Latin historical writing and that which centered on the ‘princeps and imperial court’, which he would himself practise.
Woodman (1988) 117–59 for a comparative study of Sallust and Livy and the nature of their respective debts to Cicero. Simply in terms of language and style, Tacitus’ debt to both may be readily appreciated via Syme (1958a) 728–34. g. Syme (1959) 75: ‘The direction which the Principate had taken justified a return to the sombre and pessimistic conception of politics and of human nature that Sallust had made classical. ’ It should be noted, however, that Tacitus is as capable of adapting Livian material as he is Sallustian: for fi ne examples of both practices, see Ginsburg (1993); see also, as a further example of Tacitus’ multiple borrowings from Sallust, Livy and Caesar in a single if extended passage, the commentary of Martin and Woodman (1989) on A.