{"id":7698,"date":"2017-08-11T12:10:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T11:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7698"},"modified":"2017-08-29T10:11:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T09:11:02","slug":"congratulations-to-graham-landon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/08\/11\/congratulations-to-graham-landon\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Graham Landon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a>\u00a0is delighted to announce that\u00a0Graham Landon has completed his PhD, with a project entitled \u2018The Speeches in Herodotus and Thucydides: a Comparison\u2019, under the supervision of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/lada.html\">Dr Csaba La\u2019da<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Graham\u2019s thesis asks why did the two great classical Greek historians use speeches in their narratives?\u00a0 Why did\u00a0 Thucydides, who appears so critical of his predecessor in other respects, follow his predecessor in employing this technique?\u00a0 What common sources may have influenced both authors in their inclusion of speeches?\u00a0 This thesis sets out to answer these critical questions as well as providing an original comparative statistical analysis of the speeches in both works.<\/p>\n<p>Our congratulations to Dr Landon.<\/p>\n<p>For more details of the PhD in Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies, please see the page:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/postgraduate\/research-classical-archaeological-studies.html\">www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/postgraduate\/research-classical-archaeological-studies.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies\u00a0is delighted to announce that\u00a0Graham Landon has completed his PhD, with a project entitled \u2018The Speeches in Herodotus and Thucydides: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/08\/11\/congratulations-to-graham-landon\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":7796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7698"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7795,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions\/7795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}