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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rengakos, Antonios.

Tsakmakis, Antonis.

Series:

Brill's companions in classical studies.

Brill's companions in classical studies, 1872-3357

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Greece.

Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.

Thucydides.

Physical Description:

xix, 947 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

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. Brill's Companion to Thucydides was awarded Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007 .

Contents:

pt. 1. Author, contexts, ideas

pt. 2. The art of Thucydides

pt. 3. Wie es eigentlich gewesen?

pt. 4. After Thucydides.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [839]-882) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-38423-2

9786611384234

90-474-0484-X

OCLC:

609920693

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047404842 DOI