Book contents
- Thucydides and the Modern World
- Thucydides and the Modern World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction: the modern reception of 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 4 Historicising the classics: how nineteenth-century German historiography changed the perspective on historical tradition
- Chapter 5 The education offered by Athens: Thucydides and the stirrings of democracy in Britain
- Chapter 6 Thucydides, history and historicism in Wilhelm Roscher
- Chapter 7 Mourning and democracy: the Periclean epitaphios and its afterlife
- Chapter 8 The Greek Thucydides: Venizelos’ translation of Thucydides
- Chapter 9 Thucydides and ‘realism’ among the classics of international relations
- Chapter 10 International relations and Thucydides
- Chapter 11 Receiving Thucydides politically
- References
- Index
Chapter 1 - Introduction: the modern reception of Thucydides
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Thucydides and the Modern World
- Thucydides and the Modern World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction: the modern reception of 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 4 Historicising the classics: how nineteenth-century German historiography changed the perspective on historical tradition
- Chapter 5 The education offered by Athens: Thucydides and the stirrings of democracy in Britain
- Chapter 6 Thucydides, history and historicism in Wilhelm Roscher
- Chapter 7 Mourning and democracy: the Periclean epitaphios and its afterlife
- Chapter 8 The Greek Thucydides: Venizelos’ translation of Thucydides
- Chapter 9 Thucydides and ‘realism’ among the classics of international relations
- Chapter 10 International relations and Thucydides
- Chapter 11 Receiving Thucydides politically
- References
- Index
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- Thucydides and the Modern WorldReception, Reinterpretation and Influence from the Renaissance to the Present, pp. 1 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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