Thucydides and the Modern World : Reception, Reinterpretation and Influence from the Renaissance to the Present
Katherine. Harloe
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (268 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; THUCYDIDES AND THE MODERN WORLD; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1: Introduction: the modern reception of Thucydides; LANDMARKS IN THE POST-RENAISSANCE RECEPTION OF THUCYDIDES; APPROACHING THUCYDIDEAN RECEPTION; TRANSLATION, SCHOLARSHIP AND EDUCATION; CONCEPTIONS OF THUCYDIDES AND HIS WORK; KEY READINGS AND THEMES; THE USE AND ABUSE OF THUCYDIDES; RECEIVING THUCYDIDES; CHAPTER 2: Thucydides and the bellicose beginnings of modern political theory; CHAPTER 3: Thucydides the Thermidorian: democracy on trial in the making of modern liberalism. - CHAPTER 5: The education offered by Athens: Thucydides and the stirrings of democracy in BritainBRITISH POLITICAL THOUGHT IN THE MID NINETEENTH CENTURY: THE RELEVANCE OF ATHENS AND THE CONTRIBUTION OF THUCYDIDES; J. S. MILL; MATTHEW ARNOLD; CONCLUSIONS; CHAPTER 6: Thucydides, history and historicism in Wilhelm Roscher; HISTORY AS SCIENCE; HISTORY AS ART; INFLUENCE; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 7: Mourning and democracy: the Periclean epitaphios and its afterlife; CHAPTER 8: The Greek Thucydides: Venizelos' translation of Thucydides; BACKGROUND; THE CONTEXT FOR VENIZELOS' TRANSLATION. - GIRONDINS AND THERMIDORIANSTHE IDEOLOGICAL ENTERPRISE OF ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY; A CENTURY OF MYTHS; THUCYDIDES AND THE NATIONAL INTEREST; A DIVIDED LIBERAL FAMILY; AN 'EXCEPTION' TO THE RULE: THUCYDIDES THE DEMOCRAT; CHAPTER 4: Historicising the classics: how nineteenth-century German historiography changed the perspective on historical tradition; HISTORICISATION AS AN EXPERIENCE: THE SHOCK-WAVES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION; HISTORICISATION AS AN INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTION: GERMAN IDEALISM; HISTORICISATION AS A TASK: THE POLITICAL IMPACT; HISTORICISING THUCYDIDES: THE EXAMPLE OF FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL. - SPEAKING THE SAME LANGUAGECASE STUDY: READING VENIZELOS' TRANSLATION OF THUC. VII.87.5-VIII.1.2; Thucydides History VII.87.5-6; Zervos 1911, vol. IV: 55; Venizelos 1940, vol. II: 222; Crawley, edited by Strassler 1996: 478; MINORITY TRANSLATION; CHAPTER 9: Thucydides and 'realism' among the classics of international relations; I; II; III; IV; CHAPTER 10: International relations and Thucydides; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AFTER THE COLD WAR; THUCYDIDES; THE FUTURE OF THUCYDIDES; CHAPTER 11: Receiving Thucydides politically; References; Index. - Explores the far-reaching impact of the ancient Greek historian Thucydides on modern historiography, political theory and international relations.
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| ISBN | 9781107019201
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