The afterlife of Herodotus and Thucydides / edited by John North and Peter Mack.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

North, John, 1938- editor.

Mack, Peter, 1955- editor.

Series:

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement ; 139.

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement ; 139

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herodotus--Influence.

Herodotus.

Thucydides--Influence.

Thucydides.

Civilization, Medieval--Classical influences.

Civilization, Medieval.

Renaissance.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

xiv, 172 pages : 1 illustration ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London Press, 2019.

Contents:

Introduction - John North & Peter Mack ; From Thucydides to Lucretius: the Plague of Athens, between medicine and classical scholarship in Renaissance Italy - Andrea Ceccarelli ; The Byzantine reception of Herodotus and Thucydides - Elizabeth Jeffreys ; Herodotus and Thucydides in Procopius' Wars - Vasiliki Zali ;Herodotus and Thucydides in Walter Ralegh's History of the World - Ben Earley ; Thucydides and the English Renaissance education - Luca Iori ; A Protestant Thucydides in Reformation Germany - John Richards ; A mathematician among the classics: Isaac Newton as a reader of Herodotus - Mordechai Feingold ; Herodotus and the perception of the Persian empire. Some observations from a historical and methodological perspective - Reinhold Bichler ; The resurgence of Herodotus and the new philosophy of history - Gaston J. Basile ; The modernity of Thucydides - Neville Morley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781905670871

1905670877

OCLC:

1124379313