TY - BOOK ID - 18357804 TI - Brill's companion to Thucydides AU - Rengakos, Antonios. AU - Tsakmakis, Antonis. PY - 2006 SN - 9004136835 9789004136830 9786611384234 1281384232 904740484X 9789047404842 9781281384232 6611384235 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Thucydides. KW - Greece KW - History KW - Historiography. KW - Historical criticism KW - Authorship KW - Criticism KW - Historiography KW - Peloponnesian War (Greece : 431-404 B.C.) KW - History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides) KW - Peloponnēsiakos polemos (Thucydides) KW - De bello Peloponnesiaco (Thucydides) KW - History (Thucydides) KW - Thucydidis De Bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo (Thucydides) KW - De Bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo (Thucydides) KW - Syngraphē (Thucydides) KW - Xyngraphē (Thucydides) KW - Thucydidis Historiae (Thucydides) KW - Historiae (Thucydides) KW - Thukydides (Thucydides) KW - 431 - 404 B.C. KW - Greece. KW - al-Yūnān KW - Ancient Greece KW - Ellada KW - Ellas KW - Ellēnikē Dēmokratia KW - Elliniki Dimokratia KW - Grčija KW - Grèce KW - Grecia KW - Gret͡sii͡ KW - Griechenland KW - Hellada KW - Hellas KW - Hellenic Republic KW - Hellēnikē Dēmokratia KW - Kingdom of Greece KW - République hellénique KW - Royaume de Grèce KW - Vasileion tēs Hellados KW - Xila KW - Yaṿan KW - Yūnān UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18357804 AB - 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 . ER -