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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254783403321

Titolo

Thucydides and Political Order : Lessons of Governance and the History of the Peloponnesian War / / edited by Christian R. Thauer, Christian Wendt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-52775-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 194 p.)

Classificazione

HIS002010HIS042000POL010000

Disciplina

938/.05072

Soggetti

History, Ancient

International relations

Historiography

World politics

Europe-History

Europe-History-To 476

Ancient History

International Relations

Historiography and Method

Political History

European History

History of Ancient Europe

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

Greece Politics and government To 146 B.C Historiography

Athens (Greece) Politics and government Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

"I have set out first the grievances and disputes" : Greek international law in Thucydides / Ernst Baltrusch -- Thucydides and Order / Richard Ned Lebow (King's College, London/ Dartmouth College, Hanover) -- Democracy without an Alternative : Thucydides, Sparta and Athens / Wolfgang Will -- Leo Strauss's Thucydides and the Meaning of Politics / Liisi Keedus -- The Power and Politics of Ontology / Christine Lee --



The Fall of the Roman Republic : Sallust's Reading of Thucydides / Klaus Meister -- Thucydides as a "statesmen's manual?" / Christian Wendt.

Sommario/riassunto

Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is considered in history and political science as a text of fundamental disciplinary relevance. However, neither discipline takes the other discipline into account during debates about Thucydides. Following Thucydides and Political Order: Concepts of Order and the History of the Peloponnesian War, this collection features scholarly work that asks what political order Thucydides envisioned, against which he might have judged the events he described. The contributors explore the role that Thucydides plays as a model theorist or representative of an ideal political order in philosophical traditions and schools of thought.