Brill's companion to Thucydides /

Brill's companion to Thucydides /

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 rhe...

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Other Authors: Rengakos, Antonios., Tsakmakis, Antonis.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online I, ISBN: 9789004219274.

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Thucydides. > History of the Peloponnesian War.
Peloponnesian War (Greece : 431-404 B.C.)
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
431 - 404 B.C.
Historiography.
Greece > History > Historiography. > Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
Greece.
History.
Electronic books.

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Call Number: DF229.T6 B75 2006

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material /
  • Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmakis
  • Biographical Obscurities and Problems of Composition /
  • Luciano Canfora
  • The New Genre and its Boundaries: Poets and Logographers /
  • Aldo Corcella
  • Thucydides and Herodotus: Aspects of their Intertextual Relationship /
  • Zacharias Rogkotis
  • Thucydides' Intellectual Milieu and the Plague /
  • Rosalind Thomas
  • Contract and Design: Thucydides' Writing /
  • Egbert Bakker
  • Thucydides and the Invention of Political Science /
  • Josiah Ober
  • Leaders, Crowds, and the Power of the Image: Political Communication in Thucydides /
  • Antonis Tsakmakis
  • Thucydides on Democracy and Oligarchy /
  • Kurt Raaflaub
  • Objectivity and Authority: Thucydides' Historical Method /
  • Tim Rood
  • Interaction of Speech and Narrative in Thucydides /
  • James V. Morrison
  • Thucydides' Narrative: The Epic and Herodotean Heritage /
  • Antonios Rengakos
  • Narrative Unity and Consistency of Thought: Composition of Event Sequences in Thucydides /
  • Hans-Peter Stahl
  • Thucydides' Workshop of History and Utility outside the Text /
  • Lisa Kallet
  • Theatres of War: Thucydidean Topography /
  • Peter Funke and Matthias Haake
  • Warfare /
  • Peter Hunt
  • Thucydides and Religion /
  • William D. Furley
  • Individuals in Thucydides /
  • David Gribble
  • Thucydides and Power Politics /
  • Lawrence Tritle
  • Thucydides and Epigraphy /
  • Bernhard Smarczyk
  • Thucydides and Athenian History /
  • P.J. Rhodes
  • Thucydides and Comedy /
  • Jeffrey Rusten
  • Sparta and the Spartans in Thucydides /
  • Paul Cartledge and Paula Debnar
  • Macedonia and Thrace in Thucydides /
  • Michael Zahrnt
  • Thucydides and the Argives /
  • Simon Hornblower
  • Sicily and Southern Italy in Thucydides /
  • Michael Zahrnt
  • ". . . keeping the two sides equal": Thucydides, the Persians and the Peloponnesian War /
  • Josef Wiesehöfer
  • Peloponnesian War: Sources Other Than Thucydides /
  • Martin Hose
  • Thucydides Continued /
  • Roberto Nicolai
  • Thucydides in Rome and Late Antiquity /
  • Luciano Canfora
  • Byzantine Adaptations of Thucydides /
  • Diether Roderich Reinsch
  • Thucydides' Rennaissance Readers /
  • Marianne Pade
  • Thucydidean Modernities: History between Science and Art /
  • Francisco Murari Pires
  • Bibliography /
  • Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmakis
  • Index of Names and Selected Technical Terms /
  • Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmakis
  • Index of Selected Greek Terms /
  • Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmakis
  • Index Locorum I (Thucydides) /
  • Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmakis
  • Index Locorum II (Other authors) /
  • Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmakis.