A Handbook To The Reception Of Thucydides

Author : Christine Lee
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405196918

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A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides by Christine Lee Pdf

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. • Presents an in-depth, comprehensive overview of the reception of the Greek historian Thucydides • Features personal reflections by eminent scholars on the significance and perennial importance of Thucydides’ work • Features an internationally renowned cast of contributors, including established academics as well as new voices in the field

Author : Christine Lee
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118980224

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A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides by Christine Lee Pdf

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

Author : Katherine Harloe,Neville Morley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139510776

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Thucydides and the Modern World by Katherine Harloe,Neville Morley Pdf

The ancient Greek historian Thucydides has had an enormous impact on modern historiography, political theory, international relations and strategic studies, but this influence has never been properly studied. This book brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the different facets of Thucydides' modern reception and influence, from the birth of political theory in Renaissance Europe to the rise of scientific history in nineteenth-century Germany and the triumph of 'realism' in twentieth-century international relations theory. Its chapters consider the different national and disciplinary traditions of reading and citing Thucydides, but also highlight common themes and questions; in particular, the variety of images of the historian produced by his modern readers: the scientific historian or the artful rhetorician, the brilliant analyst of society and politics or the great narrator of political and military events, the man of experience and affairs or the man of contemplation and reflection.

Author : Ryan Krieger Balot,Sara Forsdyke,Edith Marie Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199340385

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The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides by Ryan Krieger Balot,Sara Forsdyke,Edith Marie Foster Pdf

Divided into four sections-History, Historiography, Political Theory, and Context and Reception-The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides provides a comprehensive introduction to Thucydides' ideas and their ancient influence. It bridges traditionally divided disciplines, and offers both solid explanation and innovative approaches.

Author : Ryan Balot,Sarah Forsdyke,Edith Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199340392

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The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides by Ryan Balot,Sarah Forsdyke,Edith Foster Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides contains newly commissioned essays on Thucydides as an historian, thinker, and writer. It also features chapters on Thucydides' intellectual context and ancient reception. The creative juxtaposition of historical, literary, philosophical, and reception studies allows for a better grasp of Thucydides' complex project and its intellectual context, while at the same time providing a comprehensive introduction to the author's ideas. The volume is organized into four sections of papers: History, Historiography, Political Theory, and Context and Reception. It therefore bridges traditionally divided disciplines. The authors engaged to write the forty chapters for this volume include both well-known scholars and less well-known innovators, who bring fresh ideas and new points of view. Articles avoid technical jargon and long footnotes, and are written in an accessible style. Finally, the volume includes a thorough introduction prefacing each paper, as well as several maps and an up-to-date bibliography that will enable further study. The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides offers a comprehensive introduction to a thinker and writer whose simultaneous depth and innovativeness have been the focus of intense literary and philosophical study since ancient times.

Author : Emily Greenwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472502445

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Thucydides and the Shaping of History by Emily Greenwood Pdf

Thucydides' work was one of the most exciting creations in the cultural history of Greece in the fifth century BC - one of only two monumental prose works to have survived - and it still poses fresh and challenging questions about the writing of history. In the twenty-first century, it still challenges the reader: there is a marked tension in Thucydides' History between his aim to write about contemporary events and his desire that his work should outlast the period in which he composed it. Thucydides and the Shaping of History addresses two important issues: how contemporary was the History when it was written in the fifth century, and how 'contemporary' is it now? This book approaches the shaping of history from three different angles: the way in which Thucydides shaped history and how his narrative shapes our experience as readers of the History; the relationship between Thucydides' work and contemporary institutions, such as the theatre; and the role that ancient readers and modern scholars have played in shaping how we perceive the History. This book combines a close analysis of Thucydides' narrative with a discussion of its intellectual motivation; it examines how the historian attempted to determine the way in which readers would respond to his conception of the events of the Atheno-Peloponnesian War, and to ensure the continuing influence of his ideas.

Author : Thierry Balzacq,Ronald R. Krebs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192576620

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The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy by Thierry Balzacq,Ronald R. Krebs Pdf

A clearly articulated, well-defined, and relatively stable grand strategy is supposed to allow the ship of state to steer a steady course through the roiling seas of global politics. However, the obstacles to formulating and implementing grand strategy are, by all accounts, imposing. The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy addresses the conceptual and historical foundations, production, evolution, and future of grand strategy from a wide range of standpoints. The seven constituent sections present and critically examine the history of grand strategy, including beyond the West; six distinct theoretical approaches to the subject; the sources of grand strategy, ranging from geography and technology to domestic politics to individual psychology and culture; the instruments of grand strategy's implementation, from military to economic to covert action; political actors', including non-state actors', grand strategic choices; the debatable merits of grand strategy, relative to alternatives; and the future of grand strategy, in light of challenges ranging from political polarization to technological change to aging populations. The result is a field-defining, interdisciplinary, and comparative text that will be a key resource for years to come.

Author : Robert Schuett
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474423298

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Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism by Robert Schuett Pdf

Political realism is a highly diverse body of international relations theory. This substantial reference work examines political realism in terms of its history, its scientific methodology and its normative role in international affairs. Split into three sections, it covers the 2000-year canon of realism: the different schools of thought, the key thinkers and how it responds to foreign policy challenges faced by individual states and globally. It brings political realism up-to-date by showing where theory has failed to keep up with contemporary problems and suggests how it can be applied and adapted to fit our new, globalised world order.

Author : Christian R. Thauer,Christian Wendt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137527639

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Thucydides and Political Order by Christian R. Thauer,Christian Wendt Pdf

This book, the first of two monographs exploring Thucydides, consists of contributions by world-class scholars on political order, using the Peloponnesian War to explore the historiography and political development of the ancient world. These scholars analyze the original source material of the Athenian order and interpretations of such material.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521339294

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The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Pdf

The second book of Thucydides' history is of particular literary interest, containing as it does such important sections as the funeral oration, the account of the plague at Athens and the obituary of Pericles. Professor Rusten's commentary aims to assist the students to learn to read Thucydides. It scrutinises not only the standard historical context but also the literary and philosophical one, and devotes special attention to the exceptionally complex structures and techniques of language which make Thucydides the most difficult as well as most profound of ancient historians. The introduction surveys biographical interpretations of the text, suggests a new approach to fictive elements in the speeches, and sketches the chief features of Thucydidean style. This edition is intended primarily as a textbook for undergraduates and students in the upper forms of schools (both introduction and commentary are meant to be accessible even to less advanced students of Greek), but any Greek scholar will find it rewarding.

Author : Juliana Bastos Marques,Federico Santangelo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350269460

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Authority and History by Juliana Bastos Marques,Federico Santangelo Pdf

This book examines authority in discourse from ancient to modern historians, while also presenting instances of current subversions of the classical rhetorical ethos. Ancient rhetoric set out the rules of authority in discourse, and directly affected the claims of Greek and Roman historians to truth. These working principles were consolidated in modern tradition, but not without modifications. The contemporary world, in its turn, subverts in many new ways the weight of the author's claim to legitimacy and truth, through the active role of the audiences. How have the ancient claims to authority worked and changed from their own times to our post-modern, digital world? Online uses and outreach displays of the classical past, especially through social media, have altered the balance of the authority traditionally bestowed upon the ancients, demonstrating what the linguistic turn has shown: the role of the reader is as important as that of the writer.

Author : Christopher Pelling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107176928

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Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VII by Christopher Pelling Pdf

Edition of the latter part of Thucydides' account of the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE).

Author : Christopher Pelling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107176911

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The Peloponnesian War by Christopher Pelling Pdf

Edition of the former part of Thucydides' account of the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004335493

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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde by Anonim Pdf

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde examines the ways in which Ancient Greek and Roman culture were appropriated by a global set of authors from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Greece
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037493538

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Thucydides by Thucydides Pdf