| Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation Contributor(s): Rood, Tim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198152566 ISBN-13: 9780198152569 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $261.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1999 Annotation: This book analyzes the narrative technique of Thucydides, relating his shifting uses of various techniques to his explanatory aims, and showing how he narrates the progression of one war and at the same time exposes various truths about the human condition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: 938.050 |
| LCCN: 98007982 |
| Lexile Measure: 1550 |
| Series: Oxford Classical Monographs |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.31 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book analyzes the narrative technique of Thucydides, relating his shifting uses of various techniques to his explanatory aims, and showing how he narrates the progression of one war and at the same time exposes various truths about the human condition. |