Thucydides
Subtitle: Narrative and Explanation (Oxford Classical Monographs)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 10, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780199275854
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; History; History - General History; Hellenic languages; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient - Greece; Historiography; History / Ancient / Greece; Ancient and Classical
First sentence: The best historian is the one who, by a vivid representation of emotions and characters, makes his narrative like a painting.