The Mind of Thucydides

(Cornell University Press) The publication of Romilly’s Histoire et raison chez Thucydide transformed scholarship on Thucydides. She treated his Peloponnesian War as a work of art, and proved that a literary approach that looked at its aesthetic and rhetorical elements offered the most productive and nuanced way to study Thucydides. Her book is now available in English for the first time, with an introduction tracing the context of its original publication and continuing influence. Hunter Rawlings is president of the Association of American Universities and Classics professor at Cornell University, where he was president from 1995 to 2003.