Brills' Companion to Thucydides Edited by Antonios Rengakos and Antonis Tsakmakis This volume on Thucydides, the most important historian of the ancient world, comprises articles by thirty-two leading international scholars. The contributors 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 the Thucydidean studies, and should therefore be of interest to all students of ancient history. Antonios Rengakos is Professor of Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has published on Homer, Greek Historiography, and Hellenistic Poetry, Including Form und Wandel des Machtdenkens der Athener bei Thukydides (1987), Der Homertext und die hellenistischen Dichter (1993), and Apollonius Rhodios und die antike Homererklarung (1994). He also co-edited A Companion to Apollonius Rhodius (Brill 2001). Antonis Tsakmakis (Ph.D. Munich 1991) is Associate Professor of Greek Literature at the Department of Classical Studies and Philosophy, University of Cyprus. His research interests are Greek Historiography, Comedy, the Sophists, and Archaic Lyric Poetry, and his publications include Thukydides uber die Vergangenheit (1995). He also co-edited a volume on Aristophanes Birds (Athens 1996). He is a member of the Interim Governing Board of the Open University of Cyprus.