Ebook: Redeeming Thucydides' Book VIII: Narrative Artistry in the Account of the Ionian War
Author: Vasileios Liotsakis
- Genre: Linguistics
- Tags: Thucydides -- History of the Peloponnesian War -- Book 8, History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides), Thucydides -- v460-v400, Thucydides -- v460-v400 -- Historiae -- 8, Historiography, Greece, Erzähltechnik
- Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 48
- Year: 2017
- City: Greece.
- Language: English
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Since antiquity, Book 8 of Thucydides' History has been considered an unpolished draft which lacks revision. Even those who admit that the book has some elements of internal coherence believe that Thucydides, if death had not prevented him, would have improved many chapters or even the whole structure of the book. Consequently, while the first seven books of the History have been well examined through the last two Read more...