Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and indexes.
Contents:
"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.
Summary:
"The analysis of Thucydides as a joint effort of both ancient historians and political scientists found a welcome audience in the context of Cold War scholars in the 1980s and 1990s. Since the close of the Cold War, however, there has been little in the way of a concentrated scholarship renewing this interdisciplinary dialogue. This book, the second of two monographs exploring Thucydides, consists of contributions by world-class scholars on Thucydides' legacy to the political process as understood by both ancient and modern historians and political scientists. It also includes a careful examination of the usefulness and efficacy of the interdisciplinary approach to political order in the ancient world and proposes new paths for the future of such study"-- Provided by publisher. "Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, which describes the war between Athens and Sparta and their allies in the Hellenic polis-world of the 5th Century BC, is considered in both, history and political science, as a text of fundamental disciplinary relevance. The two volumes suggest an inter-disciplinary, political order-oriented reading of this text, which involves the combination of the distinct perspectives of Classicists, International Relations scholars, Philologists and Political Theorists on the ancient author"-- Provided by publisher.
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