Thucydides and the Modern World
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Thucydides and the Modern World

Reception, Reinterpretation and Influence from the Renaissance to the Present

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Thucydides and the Modern World

Reception, Reinterpretation and Influence from the Renaissance to the Present

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781107019201
eBook ISBN
9781139512459
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. THUCYDIDES AND THE MODERN WORLD
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. CHAPTER 1: Introduction: the modern reception of Thucydides
  9. CHAPTER 2: Thucydides and the bellicose beginnings of modern political theory
  10. CHAPTER 3: Thucydides the Thermidorian: democracy on trial in the making of modern liberalism
  11. CHAPTER 4: Historicising the classics: how nineteenth-century German historiography changed the perspective on historical tradition
  12. CHAPTER 5: The education offered by Athens: Thucydides and the stirrings of democracy in Britain
  13. CHAPTER 6: Thucydides, history and historicism in Wilhelm Roscher
  14. CHAPTER 7: Mourning and democracy: the Periclean epitaphios and its afterlife
  15. CHAPTER 8: The Greek Thucydides: Venizelosā€™ translation of Thucydides
  16. CHAPTER 9: Thucydides and 'realismā€™ among the classics of international relations
  17. CHAPTER 10: International relations and Thucydides
  18. CHAPTER 11: Receiving Thucydides politically
  19. References
  20. Index