Author: ROOD, TIM
Title: Thucydides Narrative and Explanation
Description: Oxford University Press, 1998. Hardcover. ISBN: 0198152566. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Else book is Fine. Light shelfwear to DJ. ; Oxford Classical Monographs; 352 pages; This book analyzes the narrative technique of Thucydides, the historian of the war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC. It relates his shifting uses of various techniques to his explanatory aims, and shows how he narrates the progression of one war and at the same time exposes various truths about the human condition.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: 0198152566 Thucydides Classical Greek & Roman Greek History Peloponnesian War Greek Literature Historiography


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