TY - GEN T1 - Brill's companion to Thucydides T2 - Brill's companions in classical studies. A2 - Rengakos, Antonios A2 - Tsakmakis, Antonis LA - English PP - Leiden ; Boston PB - Brill YR - 2006 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn609920693 AB - 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. OP - 947 CN - DF229.T6 B75 2006 SN - 9789047404842 SN - 904740484X SN - 1281384232 SN - 9781281384232 SN - 6611384235 SN - 9786611384234 SN - 9004136835 SN - 9789004136830 KW - Thucydides. : History of the Peloponnesian War. KW - Thucydide. : Histoire de la guerre du Péloponnèse. : Français. KW - History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides) KW - Thucydides. KW - Greece : History : Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. : Historiography. KW - Grèce : Histoire : 431-404 av. J.-C. (Guerre du Péloponnèse) : Historiographie. KW - HISTORY : Ancient. KW - Historiography KW - Greece KW - Historiae (Thucydides) KW - Historiografia : Grécia antiga. KW - Historians : Greece. KW - Greece : Historiography. KW - Peloponnesiska kriget 431-404 f. Kr. KW - 431-404 B.C KW - History KW - Handboeken (vorm) ER -