Thucydides and Political Order Lessons of Governance and the History of the Peloponnesian War

by Thauer, Christian R.; Wendt, Christian

• ISBN13: 9781137527745
• ISBN10: 1137527749
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-02-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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.

Author Biography

Christian R. Thauer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Christian Wendt is Professor of Ancient History at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Table of Contents

1. 'I have set out first the grievances and disputes:' Greek international law in Thucydides; Ernst Baltrusch
2. Thucydides and Order; Richard Ned Lebow (King's College, London/ Dartmouth College, Hanover)
3. Democracy without an Alternative: Thucydides, Sparta and Athens; Wolfgang Will
4. Leo Strauss's Thucydides and the Meaning of Politics; Liisi Keedus
5. The Power and Politics of Ontology; Christine Lee
6. The Fall of the Roman Republic: Sallust's Reading of Thucydides; Klaus Meister
7. Thucydides as a 'statesmen's manual'?; Christian Wendt