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"This book approaches the shaping of history from three different angles. It examines the way in which Thucydides shaped history and how his narrative shapes our experience as readers of the History. In addition, it also examines the relationship between Thucydides' work and con…
The author addresses two issues: how contemporary was Thucydides' work when it was written in the 5th century and how 'contemporary' is it now? She combines a close analysis of the narrative with a discussion of its intellectual motivation and examines how the historian ensured …
"This book approaches the shaping of history from three different angles. It examines the way in which Thucydides shaped history and how his narrative shapes our experience as readers of the History. In addition, it also examines the relationship between Thucydides' work and con…
Thucydides' work was one of the most exciting creations in the cultural history of Greece in the fifth century BC - one of only two monumental prose works to have survived - and it still poses fresh and challenging questions about the writing of history. In the twenty-first cent…
