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1 online resource (627 pages) : illustrations |
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A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reading Thucydides; Part I: Scholarship, Criticism, and Education; Part II: Thucydides the Historian; Part III: Thucydides the Political Theorist; Part IV: Thucydides the Strategist; Part V: Thucydidean Themes; Part VI: Thucydidean Reflections; Prospects; Guide to Further Reading; References; Part I Scholarship, Criticism, and Education; Chapter 1 Thucydides' Ancient Reputation; Guide to Further Reading; References |
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Chapter 2 The Renaissance: Scholarship, Criticism, and EducationBackground: Byzantium and Medieval Italy; Scholarship: Early Interest; Scholarship: Translations; Scholarship: Editions; Criticism: The Rhetorical Model; Education: Thucydides in the University; Conclusion; Note; Guide to Further Reading; References; Chapter 3 The Speeches of Thucydides and the Renaissance Anthologies; Introduction; History and Speeches in the Renaissance; The Fourteenth Century: Heredia's Thucydides; Anthologies of Thucydidean Speeches in the Fifteenth Century |
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Thucydides and the Conciones of the Early Sixteenth CenturyThucydides in the New Anthologies of the Late Sixteenth Century; Conclusions; Guide to Further Reading; References; Appendix: Sources; Fourteenth Century; Fifteenth Century; First Half of the Sixteenth Century; Second Half of the Sixteenth Century; Chapter 4 Carving Up Thucydides: The Rise and Demise of "Analysis," and its Legacy; An Unfinished Work (Book 8); A Two-Stage Work; A Multistage Work; An Author in Turmoil, and His Posthumous Editor; The Unitarians Strike Back; Reclaiming Books 5-8; Reading Thucydides Today |
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An Unfinished Work?Note; Guide to Further Reading; References; Chapter 5 Thucydides as an Educational Text; Max Weber (1864-1920); Winston Churchill (1874-1965); Notes; Guide to Further Reading; References; Chapter 6 On Translating Thucydides; Studying Translations; What Difference does Translation Make?; Retranslation; Translating a War Narrative; Conclusion; Notes; Guide to Further Reading; References; Part II Thucydides the Historian; Chapter 7 Thucydides and His "Contemporaries"; Introduction; Recharging the Canon; Utility, Style, and Fides; Translation and Reception |
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Guide to Further ReadingReferences; Chapter 8 The Thucydidean Clio between Machiavelli and Hobbes; Prologue: The Challenges of (the Rhetoric of) Method and the (Heroic) Figuration of the Historian; The Thucydidean Clio; Niccolò Machiavelli, the Odyssean Historian; Jean Bodin, "The True Father of History"; La Popelinière: The Historian between Pandora and the Muses; Toward Hobbes; Epilogue: The Figurations of Historiographical Excellence of the Historian between Hero and Genius; Guide to Further Reading; References |
| Summary |
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 |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
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Thucydides -- Appreciation
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| SUBJECT |
Thucydides fast |
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
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Art appreciation
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Historiography
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Greece -- Historiography
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Greece
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Lee, Christine M., editor
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Morley, Neville, editor
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| ISBN |
9781118980217 |
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1118980212 |
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1405196912 |
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9781405196918 |
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