The Irony of Failure: Nicias and Thucydides, Hannibal and Polybius
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https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.25.2.15-37Keywords:
irony, intellectual history, Thucydides, Polybius, classical reception studiesAbstract
The notions of new word, yearning for realism, and existential irony, give shape to this study about Thucydides’ and Polybius’ passages, which reconstruct historically both Nicias’ and Hannibal’s political failures. The paper avails itself of a comparative and historical-philological approach, and examines the hermeneutical possibility of this kind of irony to suffuse historical narratives.
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