Brill's companion to Thucydides

Author(s)

• Rengakos, Antonios
• Tsakmakis, Antonis

Bibliographic Information

Brill's companion to Thucydides

edited by Antonios Rengakos and Antonios [i.e. Antonis] Tsakmakis

Brill, 2006

Note

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

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA79045436
• ISBN:
  • 9789004136830
• LCCN: 2006049068
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden ; Boston
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 947 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DF229.T6
  • DC22 : 938/.05
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War
  • LCSH : Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. -- Historiography