About the Author

W. Robert Connor is Professor of Classics and Chairman of the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University.

Reviews

"W. R. Connor, well known for his work as an historian and as a student of historiography, has now written a sensitive literary critique of Thucydides, arguing forcefully that historians who rely on literary evidence must be attentive to how literary texts work. Combining a sound background in his period with a keen sense of Thucydidean style and method, Connor has constructed a work that will be read with profit by anyone interested in history, historiography, or the Periclean age."---Daniel P. Tompkins, History and Theory