Brill's companion to Thucydides / edited by Antonios Rengakos and Antonis Tsakmakis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rengakos, Antonios.

Tsakmakis, Antonis

Brill Online Books and Journals.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Brill's companions in classical studies

Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online I

Brill's Companions in Classical Studies I

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.

Thucydides.

Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C--Historiography.

Greece.

History.

Historiography.

TucÍdides, approximately 460-400 A. C.

Local Subjects:

TucÍdides, approximately 460-400 A. C.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 947 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This volume on Thucydides, the most important historian of the ancient world, comprises articles by thirty leading international scholars. The contributions cover a wide range of issues, including Thucydides' life, intellectual milieu and predecessors, Thucydides and the act of writing, his rhetoric, historical method and narrative techniques, narrative unity in the History, the speeches, Thucydides' reliability as a historian, and his legacy through the centuries. Other topics dealt with include warfare, religion, individuals, democracy and oligarchy, the invention of political science, Thucydides and Athens, Sparta, Macedonia/Thrace, Sicily/South Italy, Persia, and the Argives. The volume aims to provide a survey of current trends in Thucydidean studies which will be of interest to all students of ancient history.

Contents:

Biographical Obscurities and Problems of Composition / Luciano Canfora

The New Genre and its Boundaries : Poets and Logographers / Aldo Corcella

Thucydides and Herodotus: Aspects of their Intertextual relationship / Zacharias Rogkotis

Thucydides' Intellectual Milieu and the Plague / Rosalind Thomas

Contract and Design : Thucydides' Writing / Egbert Bakker

Thucydides and the Invention of Political Science / Josiah Ober

Leaders, Crowds, and the Power of the Image : Political Communication in Thucydides / Antonis Tsakmakis

Thucydides on Democracy and Oligarchy / Kurt Raaflaub

Objectivity and Authority : Thucydides' Historical Method / Tim Rood

Interaction of Speech and Narrative in Thucydides / James V. Morrison

Thucydides' Narrative : The Epic and Herodotean Heritage / Antonios Rengakos

Narrative Unity and Consistency of Thought : Composition of Event Sequences in Thucydides / Hans-Peter Stahl

Thucydides' Workshop of History and Utility outside the Text / Lisa Kallet

Theatres of War : Thucydidean Topography / Peter Funke, Matthias Haake

Warfare / Peter Hunt

Thucydides and Religion / William D. Furley

Individuals in Thucydides / David Gribble

Thucydides and Power Politics / Lawrence Tritle

Thucydides and Epigraphy / Bernhard Smarczyk

Thucydides and Athenian History / P.J. Rhodes

Thucydides and Comedy / Jeffrey Rusten

Sparta and the Spartans in Thucydides / Paul Cartledge, Paula Debnar.

Macedonia and Thrace in Thucydides / Michael Zahrnt

Thucydides and the Argives / Simon Hornblower

Sicily and Southern Italy in Thucydides / Michael Zahrnt

". . . keeping the two sides equal" : Thucydides, the Persians and the Peloponnesian War / Josef Wiesenhofer

Peloponnesian War : Sources Other Than Thucydides / Martin Hose

Thucydides Continued / Roberto Nicolai

Thucydides in Rome and Late Antiquity / Luciano Canfora

Byzantine Adaptations of Thucydides / Diether Roderich Reinsch

Thucydides' Rennaissance Readers / Marianne Pade

Thucydidean Modernities: History between Science and Art / Francisco Murari Pires.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 839-882) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Brill's companion to Thucydides.

ISBN:

9789047404842

904740484X

1281384232

9781281384232

OCLC:

609920693

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.