Download or read book The Mind of Thucydides written by Jacqueline de Romilly and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in France in 1956 and now available in English for the first time, this narratological analysis of Thucydides's "History of the Peloponnesian War" highlights the power and sophistication of the Greek historian's rhetoric.