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Thucydides Mythistoricus by Cornford, Francis M. is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Thucydides Mythistoricus about?
This book falls into two parts: Thucydides Historicus and Thucydides Mythicus. In the first, Francis M. Cornford attempts to prove the inadequacy of Thucydides's account of the origins of the Peloponnesian War and develops a very different theory of its causes. In the second part he attempts to answer the question why Thucydides has told us so little about the War that we find accurate, consistent, or relevant.
Who reads Thucydides Mythistoricus?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Cornford, Francis M.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Published
- 1972
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812210217
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, History
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