Brill's companion to Thucydides / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Brill's companions in classical studies, |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2006. |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
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| Physical Description: | xix, 947 p. |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material / Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmakis
- 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 and 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 and 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 Wiesehöfer
- 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
- Bibliography / Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmakis
- Index of Names and Selected Technical Terms / Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmakis
- Index of Selected Greek Terms / Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmakis
- Index Locorum I (Thucydides) / Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmakis
- Index Locorum II (Other authors) / Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmakis.