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Thucydides - Narrative and Explanation (Paperback, New edition)
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Thucydides - Narrative and Explanation (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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`War is a harsh teache' wrote Thucydides in the fifth-century BC.
Rood analyses the techniques through which Thucydides' narrative
explains the origin and course of the Peloponnesian War and exposes
harsh truths about how individuals and states behave. Rood
concentrates on how the use of techniques, such as selectivity,
interaction of speech and narrative, and manipulation of time and
perspective, points at one level to general human constraints, at
another to the self-destructiveness of Athens' imperial power. The
book explores some techniques that have received little attention
and offers new ways of reading others; it gives new insight into
Thucydides' sophistication and the way he relates to his
predecessors. It is also important for its attempts to refute views
that Thucydides' History is made up of different compositional
strata or inspired by pro-Athenian bias. And it addresses directly
the way modern historians use Thucydides, contributes to the
contemporary debate over narrative history, and shows the value of
applying some of the concepts of recent narrative theory to
historical texts.
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