Thucydides and the Idea of History

Informationen zum Autor Neville Morley is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Trade in Classical Antiquity (2010), Theories, Models and Concepts in Ancient History (2004) and Metropolis and Hinterland: The City of Rome and the Italian Economy, 200 BC - AD 200 (1996). Klappentext It is remarkable that the trajectory of Thucydides' modern reception has never been properly studied. Neville Morley here sets right that neglect. He examines different aspects of the reception of Thucydides within modern western historiography, casting fresh light on ideas about history and the historian in the contemporary world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. The Historian's Historian 2. Reason, Reality and Science 3. Personality and Partiality 4. Rhetoric and the Art of History 5. The Uses and Uselessness of History Conclusion Bibliography of Sources Selected Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Neville Morley
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.10.2010
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity
• EAN: 9781848851696
• ISBN: 978-1-84885-169-6
• Pages: 224
• Series: New Directions in Classics > 04; New Directions in Classics > 04