A retórica do método (Tucídides I.22 e II.35)

Through a comparative analysis of the so called "methodological" chapter (I.22) of the Proem of the thucydidean History with the Proem of the famous Funeral Oration of Pericles (II.35) in honour of the athenians dead in the first year of the war, this article envisages to understand the purposes of that chapter rather as a rhetorical device that projects the excellence of the historiographical art of his author than as a positive proposition of "methodological" rules of facts' reconstitution