Thucydides Mythistoricus (Routledge Revivals)

<p>First published in 1907 and reissued in 1965 this is a fascinating study of Thucydides’s <i>History</i>. Thucydides set out to write a truthful account of the Pelopennesian war but his work reflects his Athenian fourth-century B.C. context which was of a particular interest to Cornford. In this fascinating title Cornford analyses the causes of the war as shown by Thucydides and other sources and then goes on to comment on the <i>History</i>.</p>