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New. 1853996653. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED--Thucydides is often credited with being the father of ‘scientific history' and seen as having produced in his history of the Peloponnesian War a factual account of that destructive conflict, by contrast with the more anecdotal, even credulous approach of previous writers. However, in the ground-breaking Thucydides Mythistoricus, first published in 1907, F. M. Cornford came to the conclusion that Thucydides' work is in fact an historical tragedy, a dramatised version of the facts. Starting from an analysis of Thucydides' account of the origin of the war, which he finds unsatisfactory, Cornford asks why this should be, and comes to the conclusion that Thucydides' view was suffused by a tragic view of human nature, arguing that ‘the thought of a most prosaic and rational writer of antiquity moved in an atmosphere which we should recognise to be poetic and mythical'. For this new edition Simon Hornblower provides a new Introduction tracing the reception of Cornford's ideas, along with a selection of relevant new bibliography. -AUTHOR: Cornford is the famed translator and commentator on Plato and other great Greek authors. Cornford was Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1899 to 1943 and Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge from 1931 to 1939. -Simon Hornblower is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at University College London. --with a bonus offer--