The mind of Thucydides / Jacqueline de Romilly ; translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings ; edited and with an introduction by Hunter R. Rawlings III and Jeffrey S. Rusten.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-187) and indexes.
Contents
Narrative methods -- Battle accounts: analysis and narration -- The antithetical speeches -- Investigating the past: the "archaeology."
Summary
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.
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