Contributions

  • Antonios Rengakos (Editor) - Contributor
  • Antonis Tsakmakis (Editor) - Contributor

Publication

2006-10-10 - Brill

Language

English

Word Count

236,750 words, Guess

Page Count

947 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2006049068
  • Goodreads591904

Classifications

  • LCCDF229.T6B75 2006

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Brill's Companion to Thucydides (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies)HardcoverBrill2006-10-10

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