A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides

A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides offers an invaluable guide to the reception of Thucydides and his work. Through original essays by established and emerging scholars, this handbook explores the main strands of reception and the most salient contexts in which Thucydides has been read and appropriated. Thucydides’ influence has spread across many disciplines and sub–disciplines, including historiography, political theory, international relations and strategic studies. Essays explore these domains as well as other literary, cultural and historical contexts; contributors engage with a variety of extant interpretations while developing new approaches to Thucydides’ work.  Chapters focus on different aspects of Thucydides’ writing; his role as a historian and his contribution to the development of historiography; his status as a political and strategic thinker; the influence of academic and non–academic readings of The History ; and additional Thucydidean themes. The handbook concludes with personal reflections by eminent scholars on the significance and perennial importance of Thucydides’ work for this generation and for generations to come.

1    Introduction: Reading Thucydides       Neville Morley & Christine Lee Scholarship, Criticism and Education 2    Thucydides’ Ancient Reputation       Valérie Fromentin & Sophie Gotteland 3    The Renaissance: Scholarship, Criticism and Education       Marianne Pade 4    The Speeches of Thucydides and the Renaissance Anthologies       J. Carlos Iglesias–Zoido 5    Carving up Thucydides: the Rise and Demise of “Analysis”, and its Legacy       Jeffrey S. Rusten 6    Thucydides as an Educational Text       Oliver Schelske 7    On Translating Thucydides       Emily Greenwood Thucydides the Historian 8    Thucydides and his “Contemporaries”       Ellen O’Gorman 9    The Thucydidean Clio between Machiavelli and Hobbes       Francisco Murari Pires 10    The Reception of Thucydides in Eighteenth– and Nineteenth–Century France       Pascal Payen 11    On Historical Time and Method: Thucydides’ Contemporary History in Nineteenth–Century Britain       Alexandra Lianeri 12    Thucydides in 19 th –Century Germany: Historicization and Glorification       Klaus Meister 13    Thucydides in the Twentieth and Twenty–First Centuries       Jon Hesk Thucydides the Political Theorist 14    Hobbes and his Contemporaries       James Jan Sullivan 15    “L’historien des politiques”: Universalism and Contextualism in the Abbé de Mably’s Reception of Thucydides       Ben Earley 16    The Straussian Thucydides       Seth N. Jaffe 17    Realism, Constructivism and Democracy in the History       John Zumbrunnen 18    Thucydides and the Problem of Citizenship       Gerald Mara 19    Thucydides and Democratic Horizons       Christine Lee Thucydides the Strategist 20    The Reception of Thucydides in the History of International Relations       Edward Keene 21    Thucydides and the Just War Tradition: Unlikely Bedfellows?       Cian O’Driscoll 22    Thucydides the realist?       Laurie M. Johnson 23    Thucydides Our Father, Thucydides Our Shibboleth: the Peloponnesian War as a Marker of Contemporary International Relations Theory       Timothy J. Ruback 24    Thucydides in the Staff College       Andreas Stradis Thucydidean Themes 25    Thucydides and the Plague       Helen King and Jo Brown 26    The Reception of Thucydides’ Archaeology       Tim Rood 27    Thucydidean Concepts       Lorna Hardwick 28    Thucydides, Science and Late Modern Philosophy       Thom Workman 29    Thucydides in Modern Political Rhetoric       Elizabeth Sawyer Thucydidean Reflections 30    Why We Need To Read Thucydides – Even When “We” Are Only A Few       Hunter R. Rawlings III 31    Why Teach Thucydides Today? (And If We’re At It, How?)       Clifford Orwin 32    Everywhere Monuments of Good and Evil: Thucydides in the Twenty–First Century       Gregory Crane 33    Receiving the Reception       Geoffrey Hawthorn Conclusion 34    The Idea of Thucydides in the Western Tradition       Neville Morley

Christine Lee is a tutor at St. John’s College, Annapolis Maryland. Neville Morley is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Antiquity and Modernity (Wiley Blackwell, 2009), The Roman Empire: Roots of Imperialism (2010), and Thucydides and the Idea of History (2014), and co‑editor of Thucydides and the Modern World (with Katherine Harloe, 2012).