Thucydides and political order. Concepts of order and the History of the Peloponnesian War / edited by Christian R. Thauer and Christian Wendt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thauer, Christian, 1976- editor.

Wendt, Christian, 1976- editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thucydides--Political and social views.

Thucydides.

Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.

Order--Political aspects--Greece--History--To 1500.

Order.

Political science--Greece--History--To 1500.

Political science.

Politics and government.

Historiography.

History.

Political and social views.

Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C--Historiography.

Greece.

Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C--Historiography.

Athens (Greece)--Politics and government--Historiography.

Athens (Greece).

Physical Description:

viii, 201 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Concepts of order and the History of the Peloponnesian War

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

"The analysis of Thucydides as a joint effort of both ancient historians and political scientists found a welcome audience in the context of Cold War scholars in the 1980s and 1990s. Since the close of the Cold War, however, there has been little in the way of a concentrated scholarship renewing this interdisciplinary dialogue. This book, the first of two monographs exploring Thucydides, consists of contributions by world-class scholars on political order, using the framework of the Peloponnesian War to explore the historiography and political development of the ancient world. Analyzing both the original source material of the Athenian order as well as various interpretations of such material, this book will appeal to historians and political scientists alike in their re-examinations of Thucydides and his world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Introduction: Thucydides and Political Order / Christian R. Thauer and Christian Wendt

Part II. Thucydides and the modern reader : methodological reflections from different perspectives

Contextualism and Universalism in Thucydidean Thought / Neville Morley

It's Time For History! : Thucydides in International Relations : towards a Post-"Westphalian" Reading of a Pre-"Westphalian" Author / Christian R. Thauer

archē in Herodotus and Thucydides / Peter Spahn

Turannis in the work of Thucydides / Martin Dreher

Part III. Representations of order in Thucydides

Beneath Politics Thucydides on the Body as the Ground and Limit of the Political Regime / Clifford Orwin

The "Rule of the Sea" : Thucydidean Concept or Periclean Utopia? / Hans Kopp

Civic Trust in Thucydides' History / Ryan Balot.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1137527625

9781137527622

OCLC:

934287762

Publisher Number:

99966338750