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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 .

Thucydides. --- Greece --- History --- Historiography. --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Historiography --- Peloponnesian War (Greece : 431-404 B.C.) --- History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides) --- Peloponnēsiakos polemos (Thucydides) --- De bello Peloponnesiaco (Thucydides) --- History (Thucydides) --- Thucydidis De Bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo (Thucydides) --- De Bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo (Thucydides) --- Syngraphē (Thucydides) --- Xyngraphē (Thucydides) --- Thucydidis Historiae (Thucydides) --- Historiae (Thucydides) --- Thukydides (Thucydides) --- 431 - 404 B.C. --- Greece. --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret͡sii͡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān

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This volume brings together scholars from various areas (history, philology, linguistics, history of political ideas) and attempts a fresh survey of current trends in the analysis of Thucydides' historical narrative. Individual contributions range from a general outlook of Thucydides' historical and historiographical concepts to detailed analysis of narrative strategies, linguistic features and stylistic devices. Special attention is given to questions such as the representation of character, the role of individuals, the interaction between leaders and masses in Athenian democracy, the construction of speeches in Thucydides' work, etc. The analysis of language, style and narrative properties is related to the construction of meaning according to current standards of textual analysis and interpreation.

Greece -- Historiography. --- Historiography. --- Thucydides -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Thucydides. --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Greece --- Thucydides --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Thucydide --- Thukydides --- Thoukudides --- Historical Representation. --- Interpretation. --- Narrative. --- Thukydides. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- Tucidide --- Fukidid --- Tucídides --- Thoukydidēs --- תוקידידיס --- Θουκυδίδης

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"It is well known that scrutiny of Plato's first words begins with Proclus' commentary on the Parmenides. Proclus asks how we, the readers of a Platonic dialogue, could or should treat the prooimia of the dialogues. Proclus supports the view that a reader should first understand the dialogue and then revisit the opening scene, aiming to understand how the philosophical content developed in the main part of the dialogue sheds light on the prelude. It is thanks to Myles Burnyeat that Proclus' approach to the Platonic prooimia became part of the contemporary discussion regarding the nature of Plato's first words"--

Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Plato. --- Ancient rhetoric --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Rhetoric --- Platon --- Plato --- Aflāṭūn --- Aplaton --- Bolatu --- Platonas --- Platone --- Po-la-tʻu --- Pʻŭllatʻo --- Pʻŭllatʻon --- Pʻuratʻon --- Πλάτων --- אפלטון --- פלאטא --- פלאטאן --- פלאטו --- أفلاطون --- 柏拉圖 --- 플라톤 --- Платон --- プラトン