Tucídides

The Peloponnesian War, which pitted the Athenians against the Spartans, changed the Hellenic geopolitical map forever. Thucydides was able to relate it as an experience of great intellectual depth, informing readers and revealing patterns underlying events. His sober narrative and analytical ability made him a revolutionary historian. With this lucid book, Jacqueline de Romilly achieved a change of direction in research on Thucydides, granting her war chronicle the status of a literary work of art of a very high rhetorical and aesthetic level.