Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation
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.
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Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation
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.
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Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation

Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation

by Tim Rood
Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation

Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation

by Tim Rood

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199275854
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 10/07/2004
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile: 1550L (what's this?)

About the Author

Tim Rood is Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford.
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