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Thucydides and the Idea of History

Author : Neville Morley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780755610716
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Thucydides and the Idea of History written by Neville Morley and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the eighteenth century onwards, the ancient Greek writer Thucydides (c.460 c.395 bc) was viewed as the most important classical historian. He was acclaimed not only as a vital source for reconstructing antiquity but as a purveyor of timeless political wisdom. His name is almost inescapable in nineteenth-century discussions of history's nature and purpose. And his spirit, or the image of him constructed by German historicists, remains a significant presence in more recent debates about historical method. It is remarkable, then, 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. His nuanced readings illuminate changing notions of the nature and purpose of history and of the historian's proper task. This latest volume in the I.B.Tauris 'New Directions in Classics' series makes a bold and significant contribution to understandings of how to reclaim the past."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History

Author : Darien Shanske
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139460730
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History written by Darien Shanske and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-09 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the question of how and why history begins with the work of Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War is distinctive in that it is a prose narrative, meant to be read rather than performed. It focuses on the unfolding of contemporary great power politics to the exclusion of almost all other elements of human life, including the divine. The power of Thucydides' text has never been attributed either to the charm of its language or to the entertainment value of its narrative, or to some personal attribute of the author. In this study, Darien Shanske analyzes the difficult language and structure of Thucydides' History and argues that the text has drawn in so many readers into its distinctive world view precisely because of its kinship to the contemporary language and structure of Classical Tragedy. This kinship is not merely a matter of shared vocabulary or even aesthetic sensibility. Rather, it is grounded in a shared philosophical position, in particular on the polemical metaphysics of Heraclitus.

Apologies to Thucydides

Author : Marshall Sahlins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226734005
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Apologies to Thucydides written by Marshall Sahlins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Thucydides Between History and Literature

Author : Antonis Tsakmakis
Publisher : de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110297683
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Thucydides Between History and Literature written by Antonis Tsakmakis and published by de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas of history: Ktema es aiei : Thucydides' concept of "learning through history" and its realization in his work / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- The distribution of character judgments in Thucydides / Matthieu de Bakker -- Ascribing motivation in Thucydides : between historical research and literary representation / Melina Tamiolaki -- The causes of the Athenian pestilence and the plague / Paul Demont -- Representations of time and space: The presence of the past in Thucydides / Jonas Grethlein -- The Cylon conspiracy : Thucydides and the uses of the past / Tim Rood -- Katâ ethne kai kata poleis : from the catalogues to the archaeologies / Roberto Nicolai -- In the shadow of Pericles: Athens' Samian victory and the organization of the Pentekontaetia / Marek Węcowski -- Transformations of landscapes in Thucydides / Vassiliki Pothou -- Thucydides and politics: "Reading" Athens : foreign perceptions of the agency of leaders and demos in Thucydides / Sarah Brown Ferrario -- Thucydides and the masses / Suzanne Saad -- Thucydides' Pericles : between historical reality and literary representation /Panos Christodoulou -- Aspects of the narrative: The balance of power and compositional balance: Thucydides, book I / June Allison -- Blurring the boundaries of speech: Thucydides and indirect discourse / Paula Debnar -- The narrative strategy: observations on the 7th book of Thucydides / Anna Lamari -- "The dot on the i" : Thucydidean epilogues / Hans-Peter Stahl -- The narrative legacy of Thucydides: Polybius book 1 / Nikos Miltsios -- The language of Thucydides: The litotes of Thucydides / Pierre Pontier -- History as presence : time, tense and narrative modes in Thucydides / Rutger J. Allan -- Textual structure and modality in Thucydides' military exhortations / Antonis Takmakis, Charalambos Themistokleous -- Attributive discourse in the speeches of Thucydides / Maria Pavlou -- Difficult statements in Thucydides / Jonathan Price -- The language of Pericles / Daniel P. Tompkins.

A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides

Author : Christine Lee
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405196912
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides written by Christine Lee and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom

Author : Mary P. Nichols
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455588
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom written by Mary P. Nichols and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom, Mary P. Nichols argues for the centrality of the idea of freedom in Thucydides' thought. Through her close reading of his History of the Peloponnesian War, she explores the manifestations of this theme. Cities and individuals in Thucydides' history take freedom as their goal, whether they claim to possess it and want to maintain it or whether they desire to attain it for themselves or others. Freedom is the goal of both antagonists in the Peloponnesian War, Sparta and Athens, although in different ways. One of the fullest expressions of freedom can be seen in the rhetoric of Thucydides’ Pericles, especially in his famous funeral oration. More than simply documenting the struggle for freedom, however, Thucydides himself is taking freedom as his cause. On the one hand, he demonstrates that freedom makes possible human excellence, including courage, self-restraint, deliberation, and judgment, which support freedom in turn. On the other hand, the pursuit of freedom, in one’s own regime and in the world at large, clashes with interests and material necessity, and indeed the very passions required for its support. Thucydides’ work, which he himself considered a possession for all time, therefore speaks very much to our time, encouraging the defense of freedom while warning of the limits and dangers in doing so. The powerful must defend freedom, Thucydides teaches, but beware that the cost not become freedom itself.

Thucydides

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Thucydides written by Donald Kagan and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2009 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

On Justice, Power & Human Nature

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780872201699
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book On Justice, Power & Human Nature written by Thucydides and published by Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language and culture, this collection of extracts from The History of the Peloponnesian War includes those passages that shed most light on Thucydides' political theory--famous as well as important but lesser-known pieces frequently overlooked by nonspecialists. Newly translated into spare, vigorous English, and situated within a connective narrative framework, Woodruff's selections will be of special interest to instructors in political theory and Greek civilization. Includes maps, notes, glossary.

Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War

Author : Martha Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139482793
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War by : Martha Taylor

Download or read book Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War written by Martha Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War is the first comprehensive study of Thucydides' presentation of Pericles' radical redefinition of the city of Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Martha Taylor argues that Thucydides subtly critiques Pericles' vision of Athens as a city divorced from the territory of Attica and focused, instead, on the sea and the empire. Thucydides shows that Pericles' reconceputalization of the city led the Athenians both to Melos and to Sicily. Toward the end of his work, Thucydides demonstrates that flexible thinking about the city exacerbated the Athenians' civil war. Providing a thorough critique and analysis of Thucydides' neglected book 8, Taylor shows that Thucydides praises political compromise centered around the traditional city in Attica. In doing so, he implicitly censures both Pericles and the Athenian imperial project itself.

Thucydides and the Shaping of History

Author : Emily Greenwood
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Thucydides and the Shaping of History written by Emily Greenwood and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thucydides' work was one of the most exciting creations in the cultural history of Greece in the fifth century BC and it still poses fresh and challenging questions about the writing of history. 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 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.

Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity

Author : Gregory Crane
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520918746
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity written by Gregory Crane and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Author : Thucydides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Histories

Author : John Burrow
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307268527
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book A History of Histories written by John Burrow and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-04-08 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Thucydides

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521847745
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Thucydides written by Thucydides and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of Thucydides, a foundational text in the history of Western political thought, with extensive student reference material.

Thucydides’s Trap?

Author : Steve Chan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472131702
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Thucydides’s Trap? written by Steve Chan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE) ostensibly arose because of the fear that a rising Athens would threaten Sparta’s power in the Mediterranean. The idea of Thucydides’ Trap warns that all rising powers threaten established powers. As China increases its power relative to the United States, the theory argues, the two nations are inevitably set on a collision course toward war. How enlightening is an analogy based on the ancient Greek world of 2,500 years ago for understanding contemporary international relations? How accurate is the depiction of the history of other large armed conflicts, such as the two world wars, as a challenge mounted by a rising power to displace an incumbent hegemon?Thucydides’s Trap?: Historical Interpretation, Logic of Inquiry, and the Future of Sino-American Relations offers a critique of the claims of Thucydides’s Trap and power-transition theory. It examines past instances of peaceful accommodation to uncover lessons that can ease the frictions in ongoing Sino-American relations.

The Landmark Thucydides

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416590870
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Landmark Thucydides written by Thucydides and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.

The Historian Thucydides - The History of the Peloponnesian War (c. 400 BC)

Author : Daniel Traina
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640748069
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Historian Thucydides - The History of the Peloponnesian War (c. 400 BC) written by Daniel Traina and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2008 in the subject History - World History - Early and Ancient History, grade: 1,7, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (Department of History), course: The Idea of History, language: English, abstract: INTRODUCTION " [...] the first page of Thucydides is, in my opinion, the commencement of real history. All preceding narrations are so intermixed with fable, that philosophers ought to abandon them, to the embellishments of poets and orators." .Already this quotation by David Hume - one of the most distinguished philosophers of empiricism - gives us a feeling of the great value of Thucydides works. Thucydides documented the History of the Peloponnesian War in an unprecedented objectivity. On the basis of these works he is still acclaimed as the founder of political historiography. Works which were storied as a work of a lifetime. The fact that Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War' stands still so powerful in historiography let it seems consequential that long-range of later historians engaged with his works. On my work for this essay I considered works of these interrogative historians and took advantage of their qualified commentaries on Thucydides. With whose approaches I will assess Thucydides as a human and historian. I will pick up questions other commentarial historians and make use of those to describe the aftermath and importance of Thucydides works as well as to place it within its context of the development of historical writing. MAIN PART - HIS WAY OF BEING The decision that Thucydides wrote his works is just as notable than the power to adhere a lifelong to this difficult project in spite of all external disasters. This fact certainly establishes the question on: who was this man, Thucydides? And what was his intention to write 'The History of the Peloponnesian War'? For David Cartwright, who started his Introduction on Thucydides' Life with the words "Thucydides, the Athenian historian, records that he lived through the