Thucydides Mythistoricus / / Francis M. Cornford.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Cornford, Francis M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1972
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.) :; 3 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Chapter I. The Causes of The War --; Chapter II. Athenian Parties before The War --; Chapter III. The Megarian Decrees --; Chapter IV. The Western Policy --; Chapter V. Thucydides' Conception of History --; Introductory --; Chapter VI. The Luck of Pylos --; Chapter VII. The Most Violent of The Citizens --; Chapter VIII. Mythistoria and The Drama --; Chapter IX. Peitho --; Chapter X. The Melian Dialogue --; Chapter XI. The Lion's Whelp --; Chapter XII. Eros Tyrannus --; Chapter XIII. The Tragic Passions --; Chapter XIV. The Cause of The War --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512821239; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512821239
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Francis M. Cornford.

This book falls into two parts: Thucydides Historicus and Thucydides Mythicus. In the first, Francis M. Cornford attempts to prove the inadequacy of Thucydides's account of the origins of the Peloponnesian War and develops a very different theory of its causes. In the second part he attempts to answer the question why Thucydides has told us so little about the War that we find accurate, consistent, or relevant.