Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 256 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-1-139-09421-4
Content:
The ancient Greek historian Thucydides has had an enormous impact on modern historiography, political theory, international relations and strategic studies, but this influence has never been properly studied. This book brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the different facets of Thucydides' modern reception and influence, from the birth of political theory in Renaissance Europe to the rise of scientific history in nineteenth-century Germany and the triumph of 'realism' in twentieth-century international relations theory. Its chapters consider the different national and disciplinary traditions of reading and citing Thucydides, but also highlight common themes and questions; in particular, the variety of images of the historian produced by his modern readers: the scientific historian or the artful rhetorician, the brilliant analyst of society and politics or the great narrator of political and military events, the man of experience and affairs or the man of contemplation and reflection
Note:
1. Introduction: the modern reception of Thucydides
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2. Thucydides and the bellicose beginnings of modern political theory
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3. Thucydides the Thermidorian: democracy on trial in the making of modern liberalism
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4. Historicizing the classics: how nineteenth-century German historiography changed the perspective on historical tradition
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5. The education offered by Athens: Thucydides and the stirrings of democracy in Britain
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6. Thucydides, history and historicism in Wilhelm Roscher
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7. Mourning and democracy: the Periclean epitaphios and its afterlife
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8. The Greek Thucydides: Venizelos' translation of Thucydides
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9. Thucydides and 'realism' among the classics of international relations
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10. International relations and Thucydides
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11. Receiving Thucydides politically
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-107-01920-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
ca. 460 v. Chr.-400 v. Chr. Thucydides
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Rezeption
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139094214
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
Author information:
Morley, Neville 1969-
Author information:
Harloe, Katherine 1978-