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A handbook to the reception of Thucydides /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, West Sussex :
John Wiley & Sons Limited,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.