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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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The scraps of hard evidence are carefully sifted from the putative so as to uncover the probable extent and nature of interpolation in Thucydides. This gives a coarse but firm “typology,” which may be of some use in the study of other MS traditions, and clarifies hard passages many of which are discussed in depth, so that the book's Index Locorum can be a tool for students of this author. Separate chapters examine evidence given by MS disagreement, by a long inscription, by papyri, by scholiasts, by Valla's translation and more. A chapter analyzes the types of mechanical “interpolation” another, the hypothesis of Hellenistic “editing.” Constant close attention is paid to the stemma codicum (discussed also in an appendix) and to the smallest idiosyncrasies of Thucydides' style.

Thucydides --- Thucydides. --- Authorship. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Greece --- Grèce --- History --- Historiography. --- Histoire --- Historiographie --- Criticism, Textual --- Historiography --- -Fukidid --- Tucídides --- Thukydides --- Thoukydidēs --- Tucidide --- תוקידידיס --- Θουκυδίδης --- -Thucydides --- -Criticism, Textual --- -Thucydide --- Thoukudides --- -Thucydides. --- Grèce --- Criticism, Textual. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Criticism --- 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 --- Grecia --- Gret͡sii͡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War - Criticism, Textual --- Greece - History - Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. - Historiography --- Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War