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Book The mind of Thucydides / Jacqueline de Romilly ; translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings ; edited and with an introduction by Hunter R. Rawlings III and Jeffrey S. Rusten.
Associated Name: Rawlings, Elizabeth.
Associated Name: Rawlings, Hunter R.
Associated Name: Rusten, Jeffrey S.
Publication year: 2012.
Language: English
Call Number DF229.T6 R613 2012
Media class: Book
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801450631 0801450632
Series title: Cornell studies in classical philology
Extent: xviii, 195 p. ; 24 cm.
Description:
"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 and aesthetic analysis... the book has influenced numerous classicists and historians, and is now available in English for the first time in a careful translation by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings. The Cornell edition includes an introduction by Hunter R. Rawlings III and Jeffrey Rusten tracing the context of this book's original publication and its continuing influence on the study of Thucydides. Romilly shows that Thucydides constructs his account of the Peloponnesian War as a profoundly intellectual experience for readers who want to discern the patterns underlying historical events"--Dust jacket.
Introduction -- Narrative methods -- Battle accounts : analysis and narration -- The antithetical speeches -- Investigating the past : the "archaeology" -- Conclusion.
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