Lee / Morley A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-98022-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 624 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: HCRZ - Wiley-Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception

A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides offers aninvaluable guide to the reception of Thucydides, with a strongemphasis on comparing and contrasting different traditions ofreading and interpretation.
* Presents an in-depth, comprehensive overview of thereception of the Greek historian Thucydides
* Features personal reflections by eminent scholars on thesignificance and perennial importance of Thucydides' work
* Features an internationally renowned cast ofcontributors, including established academics as well as new voicesin the field

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, Christine

Morley, Neville

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: Reading Thucydides
Neville Morley & Christine Lee
Scholarship, Criticism and Education
2 Thucydides' Ancient Reputation
Valérie Fromentin & Sophie Gotteland
3 The Renaissance: Scholarship, Criticism and Education
Marianne Pade
4 The Speeches of Thucydides and the RenaissanceAnthologies
J. Carlos Iglesias-Zoido
5 Carving up Thucydides: the Rise and Demise of"Analysis", and its Legacy
Jeffrey S. Rusten
6 Thucydides as an Educational Text
Oliver Schelske
7 On Translating Thucydides
Emily Greenwood
Thucydides the Historian
8 Thucydides and his "Contemporaries"
Ellen O'Gorman
9 The Thucydidean Clio between Machiavelli andHobbes
Francisco Murari Pires
10 The Reception of Thucydides in Eighteenth- andNineteenth-Century France
Pascal Payen
11 On Historical Time and Method: Thucydides'Contemporary History in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Alexandra Lianeri
12 Thucydides in 19th-Century Germany:Historicization and Glorification
Klaus Meister
13 Thucydides in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Jon Hesk
Thucydides the Political Theorist
14 Hobbes and his Contemporaries
James Jan Sullivan
15 "L'historien des politiques": Universalismand Contextualism in the Abbé de Mably's Reception ofThucydides
Ben Earley
16 The Straussian Thucydides
Seth N. Jaffe
17 Realism, Constructivism and Democracy in theHistory
John Zumbrunnen
18 Thucydides and the Problem of Citizenship
Gerald Mara
19 Thucydides and Democratic Horizons
Christine Lee
Thucydides the Strategist
20 The Reception of Thucydides in the History of InternationalRelations
Edward Keene
21 Thucydides and the Just War Tradition: UnlikelyBedfellows?
Cian O'Driscoll
22 Thucydides the realist?
Laurie M. Johnson
23 Thucydides Our Father, Thucydides Our Shibboleth: thePeloponnesian War as a Marker of Contemporary InternationalRelations Theory
Timothy J. Ruback
24 Thucydides in the Staff College
Andreas Stradis
Thucydidean Themes
25 Thucydides and the Plague
Helen King and Jo Brown
26 The Reception of Thucydides' Archaeology
Tim Rood
27 Thucydidean Concepts
Lorna Hardwick
28 Thucydides, Science and Late Modern Philosophy
Thom Workman
29 Thucydides in Modern Political Rhetoric
Elizabeth Sawyer
Thucydidean Reflections
30 Why We Need To Read Thucydides - Even When"We" Are Only A Few
Hunter R. Rawlings III
31 Why Teach Thucydides Today? (And If We're At It,How?)
Clifford Orwin
32 Everywhere Monuments of Good and Evil: Thucydides in theTwenty-First Century
Gregory Crane
33 Receiving the Reception
Geoffrey Hawthorn
Conclusion
34 The Idea of Thucydides in the Western Tradition
Neville Morley

Über Autor(innen)

Christine Lee is a tutor at St. John's College,Annapolis Maryland.Neville Morley is Professor of Ancient History at theUniversity of Bristol. He is the author of Antiquity andModernity (Wiley Blackwell, 2009), The Roman Empire: Rootsof Imperialism (2010), and Thucydides and the Idea ofHistory (2014), and co-editor of Thucydides and theModern World (with Katherine Harloe, 2012).