Writing it down
Peter Parsons, 31 August 1989
Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens
by Rosalind Thomas.
Cambridge, 321 pp., £27.50, March 1989,0 521 35025 5 Show More
by Rosalind Thomas.
Cambridge, 321 pp., £27.50, March 1989,
“... in Athenian society, and the consequences for Greek historians and their modern analysts. Herodotus, chronicling the great patriotic war of the last generation, and Thucydides, chronicling the great civil war of his own, in the new-fangled medium of prose and the new-fangled language of research, relied heavily on eye and ear, witnesses and ... ”