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Brill's Companion to Thucydides

by: Rengakos, A. Tsakmakis, A.

Price: 286,00 EURO

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Category: Brill's Companions
Code: 3370
ISBN-13: 9789004136830 / 978-90-04-13683-0
ISBN-10: 9004136835 / 90-04-13683-5
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Publication Date: 2006
Publication Place: Leiden
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 948
Book Condition: New


Brill's Companion to Thucydides
Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies
Editors: Antonis Tsakmakis and Antonios Rengakos
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.

Preliminary material
Authors: Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmakis
Pages: i–xix
Biographical Obscurities and Problems of Composition
Author: Luciano Canfora
Pages: 1–31
The New Genre and its Boundaries: Poets and Logographers
Author: Aldo Corcella
Pages: 33–56
Thucydides and Herodotus: Aspects of their Intertextual Relationship
Author: Zacharias Rogkotis
Pages: 57–86
Thucydides? Intellectual Milieu and the Plague
Author: Rosalind Thomas
Pages: 87–108
Contract and Design: Thucydides? Writing
Author: Egbert Bakker
Pages: 109–129
Thucydides and the Invention of Political Science
Author: Josiah Ober
Pages: 131–159
Leaders, Crowds, and the Power of the Image: Political Communication in Thucydides
Author: Antonis Tsakmakis
Pages: 161–187
Thucydides on Democracy and Oligarchy
Author: Kurt Raaflaub
Pages: 189–222
Objectivity and Authority: Thucydides? Historical Method
Author: Tim Rood
Pages: 223–249
Interaction of Speech and Narrative in Thucydides
Author: James V. Morrison
Pages: 251–277
Thucydides? Narrative: The Epic and Herodotean Heritage
Author: Antonios Rengakos
Pages: 279–300
Narrative Unity and Consistency of Thought: Composition of Event Sequences in Thucydides
Author: Hans-Peter Stahl
Pages: 301–334
Thucydides? Workshop of History and Utility outside the Text
Author: Lisa Kallet
Pages: 335–368
Theatres of War: Thucydidean Topography
Authors: Peter Funke and Matthias Haake
Pages: 369–384
Warfare
Author: Peter Hunt
Pages: 385–413
Thucydides and Religion
Author: William D. Furley
Pages: 415–438
Individuals in Thucydides
Author: David Gribble
Pages: 439–468
Thucydides and Power Politics
Author: Lawrence Tritle
Pages: 469–491
Thucydides and Epigraphy
Author: Bernhard Smarczyk
Pages: 493–522
Thucydides and Athenian History
Author: P.J. Rhodes
Pages: 523–546
Thucydides and Comedy
Author: Jeffrey Rusten
Pages: 547–558
Sparta and the Spartans in Thucydides
Authors: Paul Cartledge and Paula Debnar
Pages: 559–587
Macedonia and Thrace in Thucydides
Author: Michael Zahrnt
Pages: 589–614
Thucydides and the Argives
Author: Simon Hornblower
Pages: 615–628
Sicily and Southern Italy in Thucydides
Author: Michael Zahrnt
Pages: 629–655
“. . . keeping the two sides equal”: Thucydides, the Persians and the Peloponnesian War
Author: Josef Wiesehöfer
Pages: 657–667
Peloponnesian War: Sources Other Than Thucydides
Author: Martin Hose
Pages: 669–690
Thucydides Continued
Author: Roberto Nicolai
Pages: 691–719
Thucydides in Rome and Late Antiquity
Author: Luciano Canfora
Pages: 721–753
Byzantine Adaptations of Thucydides
Author: Diether Roderich Reinsch
Pages: 755–778
Thucydides? Rennaissance Readers
Author: Marianne Pade
Pages: 779–810
Thucydidean Modernities: History between Science and Art
Author: Francisco Murari Pires
Pages: 811–837
Bibliography
Authors: Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmakis
Pages: 839–882
Index of Names and Selected Technical Terms
Authors: Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmakis
Pages: 883–903
Index of Selected Greek Terms
Authors: Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmakis
Pages: 904–911
Index Locorum I (Thucydides)
Authors: Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmakis
Pages: 912–934
Index Locorum II (Other authors)
Authors: Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmakis
Pages: 935–947

 
 
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Brill's Companion to Thucydides

by: Rengakos, A. Tsakmakis, A.

  • ISBN-13: 9789004136830 / 978-90-04-13683-0
  • ISBN-03: 9004136835 / 90-04-13683-5
  • E.J. Brill, Leiden, 2006

Price: 286,00 EURO

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