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

• Superior document: Brill's companions in classical studies,
• TeilnehmendeR: Rengakos, Antonios.; Tsakmakis, Antonis.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
• Physical Description: xix, 947 p.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Other title: Preliminary material /; Biographical Obscurities and Problems of Composition /; The New Genre and its Boundaries: Poets and Logographers /; Thucydides and Herodotus: Aspects of their Intertextual Relationship /; Thucydides’ Intellectual Milieu and the Plague /; Contract and Design: Thucydides’ Writing /; Thucydides and the Invention of Political Science /; Leaders, Crowds, and the Power of the Image: Political Communication in Thucydides /; Thucydides on Democracy and Oligarchy /; Objectivity and Authority: Thucydides’ Historical Method /; Interaction of Speech and Narrative in Thucydides /; Thucydides’ Narrative: The Epic and Herodotean Heritage /; Narrative Unity and Consistency of Thought: Composition of Event Sequences in Thucydides /; Thucydides’ Workshop of History and Utility outside the Text /; Theatres of War: Thucydidean Topography /; Warfare /; Thucydides and Religion /; Individuals in Thucydides /; Thucydides and Power Politics /; Thucydides and Epigraphy /; Thucydides and Athenian History /; Thucydides and Comedy /; Sparta and the Spartans in Thucydides /; Macedonia and Thrace in Thucydides /; Thucydides and the Argives /; Sicily and Southern Italy in Thucydides /; “. . . keeping the two sides equal”: Thucydides, the Persians and the Peloponnesian War /; Peloponnesian War: Sources Other Than Thucydides /; Thucydides Continued /; Thucydides in Rome and Late Antiquity /; Byzantine Adaptations of Thucydides /; Thucydides’ Rennaissance Readers /; Thucydidean Modernities: History between Science and Art /; Bibliography /; Index of Names and Selected Technical Terms /; Index of Selected Greek Terms /; Index Locorum I (Thucydides) /; Index Locorum II (Other authors) /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 839-882) and indexes.
• ISBN: 1281384232; 9786611384234; 904740484X
• ISSN: 1872-3357
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Antonios Rengakos and Antonis Tsakmakis.

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 .