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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255322503321

Titolo

Thucydides and Political Order : Concepts of Order 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

1-137-52763-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 201 p.)

Classificazione

HIS016000HIS042000POL010000

Disciplina

938/.05072

Soggetti

International relations

History, Ancient

Europe—History

Historiography

World politics

Philology

International Relations

Ancient History

European History

Historiography and Method

Political History

Classical Studies

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

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 -- Between office and tyranny, internal and external rulership : arche in Herodotus and Thucydides / Peter Spahn -- Turannis in the work of Thucydides / Martin Dreher (Magdeburg) -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is considered in both history and political science as a text of fundamental disciplinary relevance. However, neither discipline takes the other discipline into account during debates about Thucydides. This collection addresses this inter-disciplinary gap, asking how can and should the two disciplines approach Thucydides in the 21st century. This collection gives the reader an overview of recent scholarly work, interests, and developments in both disciplines with regard to Thucydides. It also establishes the question of 'political order' as a common theme in relation to Thucydides for historians and political scientists alike and identifies a common research agenda for future scholarly work on Thucydides across the disciplines.