Thucydides and the Modern World - Reception, Reinterpretation Influence From Renaissance to Present

Informationen zum Autor Katherine Harloe is a lecturer in the Department of Classics at the University of Reading. Neville Morley is Professor of Ancient History in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol. Klappentext Explores the far-reaching impact of the ancient Greek historian Thucydides on modern historiography, political theory and international relations. Zusammenfassung Thucydides has been an important influence on modern historiography! political theory! international relations and strategic studies! but this has never been properly studied. This book will be of interest to anyone! from undergraduates to scholars! interested in the development of their discipline and in the modern impact of classical literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Katherine Harloe, Katherine (University of Reading) Morley Harloe, Katherine Morley Harloe, HARLOE KATHERINE MORLEY NEVILLE
• Assisted by: Katherine Harloe (Editor), Katherine (University of Reading) Harloe (Editor), Harloe Katherine (Editor), Neville Morley (Editor), Neville (University of Bristol) Morley (Editor), Morley Neville (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107019201
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01920-1
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; History of Ideas, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory