Thucydides and Political Order : Concepts of Order and the History of the Peloponnesian War

Thauer, Christian R. (EDT)/ Wendt, Christian (EDT)

Palgrave Macmillan（2015/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 201 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781137527622
• DDC分類 938.05072

Full Description

This book, the first of two monographs exploring Thucydides, consists of contributions by world-class scholars on political order, using the Peloponnesian War to explore the historiography and political development of the ancient world. These scholars analyze the original source material of the Athenian order and interpretations of such material.

Contents

PART I - INTRODUCTION: THUCYDIDES AND POLITICAL ORDER
1. Introduction: Thucydides and Political Order; Christian R. Thauer and Christian Wendt
PART II - THUCYDIDES AND THE MODERN READER: METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
2. Contextualism and Universalism in Thucydidean Thought; Neville Morley
3. It's Time For History! Thucydides in International Relations: Towards a Post-'Westphalian' Reading of a Pre-'Westphalian' Author; Christian R. Thauer
4. Between office and tyranny, internal and external rulership: arch? in Herodotus and Thucydides; Peter Spahn
5. Turannis in the work of Thucydides; Martin Dreher (Magdeburg)
PART III - REPRESENTATIONS OF ORDER IN THUCYDIDES
6. Beneath Politics: Thucydides on the Body as the Ground and Limit of the Political Regime; Clifford Orwin
7. The 'Rule of the Sea': Thucydidean Concept or Periclean Utopia?; Hans Kopp
8. Civic Trust in Thucydides' History; Ryan Balot