Oxford Classical Monographs (Paperback): Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation (Paperback)

Fellow and Tutor in Classics Tim Rood
Oxford University Press, USA
9780199275854
0-19-927585-8

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.

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aims, and shows how he narrates the progression of one war and at the same time exposes various truths about the human condition.