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A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides offers an invaluable guide to the reception of Thucydides, with a strong emphasis on comparing and contrasting different traditions of reading and interpretation.
List of contents
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 Renaissance Anthologies
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 and Hobbes
Francisco Murari Pires
10 The Reception of Thucydides in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-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": Universalism and Contextualism in the Abbé de Mably's Reception of Thucydides
Ben Earley
16 The Straussian Thucydides
Seth N. Jaffe
17 Realism, Constructivism and Democracy in the History
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 International Relations
Edward Keene
21 Thucydides and the Just War Tradition: Unlikely Bedfellows?
Cian O'Driscoll
22 Thucydides the realist?
Laurie M. Johnson
23 Thucydides Our Father, Thucydides Our Shibboleth: the Peloponnesian War as a Marker of Contemporary International Relations 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 the Twenty-First Century
Gregory Crane
33 Receiving the Reception
Geoffrey Hawthorn
Conclusion
34 The Idea of Thucydides in the Western Tradition
Neville Morley
Summary
A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides offers an invaluable guide to the reception of Thucydides, with a strong emphasis on comparing and contrasting different traditions of reading and interpretation.
