Brill's Companion to Thucydides

Brill's Companions in Classical Studies

by Antonios Rengakos (Editor)

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.

Genres: History

968 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Antonios Rengakos (Greek: Αντώνιος Ρεγκάκος) studied classics at the University of Freiburg (B.A. 1979, Ph.D. 1982). He has taught at the Universities of Vienna (1994-1995), Freiburg (1991-1997). In 1997 he was appointed Professor of Ancient Greek Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and in 2011 he became a full member of the Academy of Athens (Chair: Ancient Greek Philology).
His research interests include Homer, historiography and Hellenistic poetry.


He is also co-editor (with F. Montanari) of the series Τrends in Classics Supplementary Volumes and the journal Trends in Classics (Walter de Gruyter), and member of the scientific board of the journals Wiener Studien, Eikasmos. Since 2006 he is Director of the Linguistics Department of the Centre for the Greek Language in Thessaloniki.
He is a member of the Board of the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece (MIET) and of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture.