Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation

ISBN-13: 9780199275854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 352 str.

Tim Rood

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Rood has much to say that is new and exciting. He has brought to the task wide reading and a great sensitivity to his author, and he has applied the techniques of narratology to Thucydides' text more expertly than anyone before. And in so doing, he has produced the most important book on Thucydides since Connor's work of nearly two decades ago.

O autorze

Tim Rood is Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford.