The Mind of Thucydides

by Jacqueline Romilly and Jacqueline de Romilly

Book Overview

The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly's Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Rather than mining The Peloponnesian War to speculate on its layers of composition or second-guess its accuracy, it treated it as a work of art deserving rhetorical and aesthetic analysis. Ahead of its time in its sophisticated focus upon the verbal texture of narrative, it proved that a literary approach...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501714821
• ISBN13: 9781501714825
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher