Mind of Thucydides Romilly Jacqueline de Paperback
Mind of Thucydides Romilly Jacqueline de Paperback The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly's Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Ahead of its…
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Mind of Thucydides Romilly Jacqueline de Paperback
The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly's Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Ahead of its time in its sophisticated focus upon the verbal texture of narrative, it proved that a literary approach offered the most productive and nuanced way to study 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 Cornell edition includes an introduction by Hunter R. Still in print in the original French, 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. Rawlings III and Jeffrey Rusten tracing the context of this book's original publication and its continuing