Thucydides Book I: A Students’ Grammatical Commentary

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The first book of Thucydides is a compact masterpiece. Here he sets up the conditions that led to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War in 431 B.C. With great economy, he analyzes the origins of enormous-scale wars; integrates a sketch of the historical background into the bigger thematic threads of his narrative; presents a brief observation of his methods and goals; outlines a hierarchy of causation; develops a theory of character and human nature; and presents a theory of leadership, chance, and foresight, all within a narrative structure that completely focuses these elements.
Because Book I isn’t primarily historical narrative, it inevitably proves difficult for inexperienced readers. Regardless of the convolutions and density of Thucydides’ prose style, no authoritative remark has been published for the reason that early days of the last century. H. D. Cameron is a renowned expert in Greek and comparative grammar and has written this handbook for all levels of classical students and scholars. His remark authoritatively accounts for the last 100 years of evolving grammatical and linguistic theory as they apply to the seminal work of Thucydides.
H. D. Cameron is Professor of Greek and Latin and Director of the Great Books Program on the University of Michigan.
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