The Mind of Thucydides / / Jacqueline de Romilly.

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 a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Classical Philology ; 62
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Editors’ and Translator’s Preface
  • Editors’ Introduction
  • Author’s Dedication
  • Introduction
  • 1. Narrative Methods
  • 2. Battle Accounts
  • 3. The Antithetical Speeches
  • 4. Investigating the Past
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index of Thucydidean Passages Discussed
  • General Index