The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly's Histoire et raison chez
Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on 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. 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. 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. The
Cornell edition includes an introduction by Hunter R. Rawlings III
and Jeffrey Rusten tracing the context of this book's original
publication and its continuing influence on the study of
Thucydides. Romilly shows that Thucydides constructs his account of
the Peloponnesian War as a profoundly intellectual experience for
readers who want to discern the patterns underlying historical
events. Employing a commanding logic that exercises total control
over the data of history, Thucydides uses rigorous principles of
selection, suggestive juxtapositions, and artfully opposed speeches
to reveal systematic relationships between plans and outcomes,
impose meaning on the smallest events, and insist on the constant
battle between intellect and chance. Thucydides' mind found in
unity and coherence its ideal of historical truth.
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