Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation(Oxford Classical Monographs)

Series: Oxford Classical Monographs

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.