| Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation Contributor(s): Rood, Tim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199275858 ISBN-13: 9780199275854 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $88.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: 938.050 |
| Lexile Measure: 1550 |
| Series: Oxford Classical Monographs (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.94" W x 8.5" (0.95 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, 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. |