Themistocles’ Exhortation before Salamis: On Herodotus 8.83

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  • Vasiliki Zali

Abstract

Giving Themistocles’ speech at this important moment in brief oratio obliqua allowed Herodotus to speed his narrative, press his readers toward imagining the whole, and develop a complex characterization of Themistocles.

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2013-06-18

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