Thucydides and the Modern World

Herausgeber: Harloe, Katherine; Morley, Neville

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the far-reaching impact of the ancient Greek historian Thucydides on modern historiography, political theory and international relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9781107019201
• ISBN-10: 1107019206
• Artikelnr.: 35406397

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the modern reception of Thucydides Katherine Harloe and
Neville Morley; 2. Thucydides and the bellicose beginnings of early modern
political theory Kinch Hoekstra; 3. Thucydides the Thermidorian: democracy
on trial in the making of modern liberalism Nadia Urbinati; 4.
Historicizing the classics: how nineteenth-century German historiography
changed the perspective on historical tradition Johannes Süßmann; 5. The
education offered by Athens: Thucydides and the stirrings of democracy in
Britain Elizabeth Potter; 6. Thucydides, history and historicism in Wilhelm
Roscher Neville Morley; 7. Mourning and democracy: the Periclean epitaphios
and its afterlife Jennifer Roberts; 8. The Greek Thucydides: Venizelos'
translation of Thucydides Emily Greenwood; 9. Thucydides and 'realism'
among the classics of international relations Steven Forde; 10.
International relations and Thucydides Richard Ned Lebow; 11. Receiving
Thucydides politically Geoffrey Hawthorn.