This is the first systematic attempt to compare Herodotus and Thucydides
as contemporaries, that is, as pre- Socratic thinkers who employed
rather similar concepts and intellectual tools and who worked within the
same theoretical framework or space. The work also brings to the study
of the ancient historians widely accepted and recognizable concepts
derived from contemporary historiography and the methodology of the
social sciences.
Originally published in 1982.
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