The mind of Thucydides /

First published in France in 1956 and now available in English for the first time, this narratological analysis of Thucydides's ""History of the Peloponnesian War"" highlights the power and sophistication of the Greek historian's rhetoric.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Romilly, Jacqueline de (Author)
Other Authors: Rawlings, Elizabeth (Translator), Rawlings, Hunter R. (Editor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2012.
Series:Cornell studies in classical philology.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt1ws7w8g
Table of Contents:
  • Narrative methods
  • Battle accounts: analysis and narration
  • The antithetical speeches
  • Investigating the past: the "archaeology."