Style and Necessity in Thucydides
β Tobias Joho
π Library
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2023
π Oxford University Press
π English
β Scribed by Tobias Joho
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For the modern reader, the use of direct speech, which is normally fictional, is one of the most remarkable features of ancient historiography. On the basis of a study of the rhetorical form and of the motifs employed in speeches by Herodotus and Thucydides, the author is able to expound systematica
<p>Attempts to reach the mind of the historian and writer Thucydides, with a particular focus on his pessimism as he works his transformation of the confused experience of events in wartime into an ordered history with lasting lessons for posterity.</p>