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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501719745
035 _a(DE-B1597)496511
035 _a(OCoLC)1021173381
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aRomilly, Jacqueline de
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Mind of Thucydides /
_cJacqueline de Romilly.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2017]
264 4 _c©2017
300 _a1 online resource (216 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aCornell Studies in Classical Philology ;
_v62
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tEditors’ and Translator’s Preface --
_tEditors’ Introduction --
_tAuthor’s Dedication --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Narrative Methods --
_t2. Battle Accounts --
_t3. The Antithetical Speeches --
_t4. Investigating the Past --
_tConclusion --
_tWorks Cited --
_tIndex of Thucydidean Passages Discussed --
_tGeneral Index
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aThe 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 4 _aAncient History & Classical Studies.
650 4 _aHistory.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Ancient / Greece.
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653 _aclassical philosophy, Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, Thucydidean scholarship, classical literacy.
700 1 _aRawlings, Elizabeth Trapnell
_eautore
700 1 _aRawlings, Hunter R.
_eautore
700 1 _aRusten, Jeffrey
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501719745
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501719745
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