The Mind Of Thucydides by Jacqueline de Romilly
An exploration of the ancient historian’s intellectual world, this study examines his rigorous method, causal analysis, and narrative techniques—especially the speeches—to show how he sought a durable truth about war, politics, and human nature. It traces his balance of empirical inquiry and tragic insight, his attention to fear, interest, and honor as motives, and his innovations in chronology and evidence. The result portrays a thinker who forged a new, exacting kind of history that remains relevant to understanding power, decision-making, and civic fragility.
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- Published
- 1990
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 200-300
- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
- - La construction de la vérité chez Thucydide
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