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Power and the people : Thucydides' history and the American founding / edited by Charlotte C. S. Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- A.V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and Ideas (4th : 2016 : Mercer University)
- Series:
- A.V. Elliott Conference series
- The A. V. Elliott conference series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thucydides.
- Founding Fathers of the United States--Congresses.
- Founding Fathers of the United States.
- Political science--United States--History--18th century--Congresses.
- Political science.
- Thucydides--Influence--Congresses.
- Thucydides--Philosophy--Congresses.
- Thucydides--Political and social views--Congresses.
- Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War--Congresses.
- Civilization.
- Political and social views.
- Philosophy.
- History.
- United States--Civilization--Greek influences--Congresses.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 207 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Based on the 2017 A.V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and Ideas, this volume gathers ten scholarly essays on the great Athenian historian, Thucydides, and his influence on the founders of the American republic."
- Contents:
- The impossible synthesis? : a Thucydidean perspective on liberal democracy / Clifford Orwin
- Political science and political medicine : Thucydides, the Federalist Papers, and the new world disorder / Karl Walling
- The virtues and vices of individualism / Steven Forde
- Piety and Athenian imperialism in Thucydides' Peloponnesian war / Allison Levy
- Love, beauty, and the problem of politics : Alcibiades in Thucydides and Plato / Ann Ward
- Nikias' virtue / Norman Fischer
- Separation of powers in the History? : Thucydides on the measured virtue of the five thousand / Bernard J. Dobski
- Thucydides and the new political science of the American founding / Devin Stauffer
- A philologist in the American Civil War / Sarah E. Gardner
- Why our democracy needs Thucydides now more than ever / Laurie M. Johnson.
- Notes:
- Proceedings of the 4th A.V. Elliott Conference on great Books and Ideas held at Mercer University in 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780881466959
- 0881466956
- OCLC:
- 1083460081
- Publisher Number:
- 99980815505
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