Thucydides / / Walter Robert Connor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Connor, Walter Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]; ©1984
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Book 1 --; Book 2 --; Book 3 --; Book 4 --; Book 5 --; Book 6 --; Book 7 --; Book 8 --; Conclusion --; Appendixes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400820047; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400820047
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Walter Robert Connor.

This full-scale sequential reading of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War will be invaluable to the specialist and also to those in search of an introduction and companion to the Histories. Moving beyond other studies by its focus on the reader's role in giving meaning to the text, it reveals Thucydides' use of objectivity not so much as a standard for the proper presentation of his subject matter as a method for communicating with his readers and involving them in the complexity and suffering of the Peloponnesian War. W. Robert Connor shows that as Thucydides' themes and ideas are reintroduced and developed, the initial reactions of the reader are challenged, subverted, and eventually made to contribute to a deeper understanding of the war.