Thucydides And The Ancient Simplicity

Author : Gregory Crane
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520918746

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Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity by Gregory Crane Pdf

Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the European tradition. As an account of the Peloponnesian War, it is famous both as an analysis of power politics and as a classic of political realism. From the opening speeches, Thucydides' Athenians emerge as a new and frightening source of power, motivated by self-interest and oblivious to the rules and shared values under which the Greeks had operated for centuries. Gregory Crane demonstrates how Thucydides' history brilliantly analyzes both the power and the dramatic weaknesses of realist thought. The tragedy of Thucydides' history emerges from the ultimate failure of the Athenian project. The new morality of the imperialists proved as conflicted as the old; history shows that their values were unstable and self-destructive. Thucydides' history ends with the recounting of an intellectual stalemate that, a century later, motivated Plato's greatest work. Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity includes a thought-provoking discussion questioning currently held ideas of political realism and its limits. Crane's sophisticated claim for the continuing usefulness of the political examples of the classical past will appeal to anyone interested in the conflict between the exercise of political power and the preservation of human freedom and dignity.

Author : Mary Frances Williams
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0761810560

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Ethics in Thucydides by Mary Frances Williams Pdf

Ethics in Thucydides uses the historian's account of the resolution at Corcyra as the basis for determining a moral or ethical perspective in Thucydides'History. Various scenes, speeches, and narrative descriptions are analyzed in relation to ethical vocabulary, their conformity to an ethical perspective, and the way in which they promote an ethical outcome. Ethics in Thucydides is ground-breaking because up to this point, scholars have not persuasively argued that ethics played a role in History. Williams' work is an extensive analysis which also considers Thucydides in relation to his predecessors and contemporaries.

Author : Gregory Crane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0847681297

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The Blinded Eye by Gregory Crane Pdf

Thucydides, the patron saint of Realpolitik, continues to be read in many fields outside of classics. Why did his History succeed in setting the pattern for future scholars where Hereodotus's earlier Histories failed? In this fascinating study of the construction of intellectual authority, Gregory Crane argues that Thucydides was successful for two reasons. First, he refined the language of administration: Who was in charge? How much money was spent? How many people were killed? Second, he drew upon the abstract philosophical rhetoric developing in the fifth century, one in which the state and the public, rather than the family and the individual, stand at the center of the world. Ironically, it was through deeply personal alliances that aristocratic Greeks had defined themselves and exerted power. Thucydides's discursive practice was therefore fundamentally incompatible with his ideological goals.

Author : Christian R. Thauer,Christian Wendt,Ernst Baltrusch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137527752

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

This book, the second of two monographs, consists of contributions by world-class scholars on Thucydides' legacy to the political process. It also includes a careful examination of the usefulness and efficacy of the interdisciplinary approach to political order in the ancient world and proposes new paths for the future study.

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076002844657

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Thucydides by Donald Kagan Pdf

Kagan, one of the foremost classics scholars, illuminates the historian Thucydides and his greatest work, "The Peloponnesian War," both by examining him in the context of his time and by considering him as a revisionist historian.

Author : John Burrow
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375727672

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A History of Histories by John Burrow Pdf

Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Burrow magnificently brings to life and explains the distinctive qualities found in the work of historians from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to the present. With a light step and graceful narrative, he gathers together over 2,500 years of the moments and decisions that have helped create Western identity. This unique approach is an incredible lens with which to view the past. Standing alone in its ambition, scale and fascination, Burrow's history of history is certain to stand the test of time.

Author : Edith Foster,Donald Lateiner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199593262

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Thucydides and Herodotus by Edith Foster,Donald Lateiner Pdf

Thucydides and Herodotus is an edited collection which looks at two of the most important ancient Greek historians living in the 5th Century BCE. It examines the relevant relationship between them which is considered, especially nowadays, by historians and philologists to be more significant than previously realized.

Author : Ryan Balot,Sarah Forsdyke,Edith Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190647742

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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 : Danielle Allen,Paul Christesen,Paul Millett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190888961

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How to Do Things with History by Danielle Allen,Paul Christesen,Paul Millett Pdf

How to Do Things with History is a collection of essays that explores current and future approaches to the study of ancient Greek cultural history. Rather than focus directly on methodology, the essays in this volume demonstrate how some of the most productive and significant methodologies for studying ancient Greece can be employed to illuminate a range of different kinds of subject matter. These essays, which bring together the work of some of the most talented scholars in the field, are based upon papers delivered at a conference held at Cambridge University in September of 2014 in honor of Paul Cartledge's retirement from the post of A. G. Leventis Professor of Ancient Greek Culture. For the better part of four decades, Paul Cartledge has spearheaded intellectual developments in the field of Greek culture in both scholarly and public contexts. His work has combined insightful historical accounts of particular places, periods, and thinkers with a willingness to explore comparative approaches and a keen focus on methodology. Cartledge has throughout his career emphasized the analysis of practice - the study not, for instance, of the history of thought but of thinking in action and through action. The assembled essays trace the broad horizons charted by Cartledge's work: from studies of political thinking to accounts of legal and cultural practices to politically astute approaches to historiography. The contributors to this volume all take the parameters and contours of Cartledge's work, which has profoundly influenced an entire generation of scholars, as starting points for their own historical and historiographical explorations. Those parameters and contours provide a common thread that runs through and connects all of the essays while also offering sufficient freedom for individual contributors to demonstrate an array of rich and varied approaches to the study of the past.

Author : June W. Allison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History, Ancient
ISBN : UOM:39015018523459

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Conflict, Antithesis, and the Ancient Historian by June W. Allison Pdf

Author : Xenophon,John Marincola
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9780375422553

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The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika by Xenophon,John Marincola Pdf

Here is a new edition of Xenophon's Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War. --from publisher description.

Author : Antonis Tsakmakis,Antonios Rengakos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047404842

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Brill's Companion to Thucydides by Antonis Tsakmakis,Antonios Rengakos Pdf

With contributions by thirty leading international scholars, this volume offers an up-to-date and in-depth overview of all current approaches to Thucydides’ History.

Author : Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199996643

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The Plague of War by Jennifer Tolbert Roberts Pdf

A major new history of the violent, protracted conflict between ancient Athens and Sparta.

Author : Jonathan J. Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139428439

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Thucydides and Internal War by Jonathan J. Price Pdf

In this 2001 book Jonathan Price attempts to demonstrate that Thucydides consciously viewed and presented the Peloponnesian War in terms of a condition of civil strife - stasis, in Greek. Thucydides defines stasis as a set of symptoms indicating an internal disturbance in both individuals and states. This diagnostic method, in contrast to all other approaches in antiquity, allows an observer to identify stasis even when the combatants do not or cannot openly acknowledge the nature of their conflict. The words and actions which Thucydides chooses for his narrative meet his criteria for stasis: the speeches in the History represent the breakdown of language and communication characteristic of internal conflict, and the zeal for victory led to acts of unusual brutality and cruelty, and overall disregard for genuinely Hellenic customs, codes of morality and civic loyalty. Viewing the Peloponnesian War as a destructive internal war had profound consequences for Thucydides' historical vision.

Author : Carolyn Dewald
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520930971

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Thucydides' War Narrative by Carolyn Dewald Pdf

As a sustained analysis of the connections between narrative structure and meaning in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Carolyn Dewald's study revolves around a curious aspect of Thucydides' work: the first ten years of the war's history are formed on principles quite different from those shaping the years that follow. Although aspects of this change in style have been recognized in previous scholarship, Dewald has rigorously analyzed how its various elements are structured, used, and related to each other. Her study argues that these changes in style and organization reflect how Thucydides' own understanding of the war changed over time. Throughout, however, the History's narrative structure bears witness to Thucydides' dialogic efforts to depict the complexities of rational choice and behavior on the part of the war's combatants, as well as his own authorial interest in accuracy of representation. In her introduction and conclusion, Dewald explores some ways in which details of style and narrative structure are central to the larger theoretical issue of history's ability to meaningfully represent the past. She also surveys changes in historiography in the past quarter-century and considers how Thucydidean scholarship has reflected and responded to larger cultural trends.