Global Thucydides I

Editors, Readers, Translators (19th–21st centuries)
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-3-11-914723-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

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The modern reception of Thucydides has emerged as a vibrant and steadily expanding research field over the last few decades. However, the presence of Thucydides in non-Western and global contexts has never been thoroughly investigated. This historiographical gap appears all the more conspicuous when we consider the growing need, widely perceived in the field of classical studies, to reconsider the discipline in a global sense, beyond Eurocentric and colonial paradigms.

is the first step to fill this gap by investigating instances, ways, and reasons why Thucydides became, over the past two centuries, an object of study within cultures significantly distant from those of Western Europe. In this context, the Greek historian is studied not only as a founding text of the European historiographical and political tradition, but also as a potentially shared heritage of very different cultures, from the Americas to Africa, from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus to the Far East.

The book offers the first comprehensive mapping of the global receptions of Thucydides.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iori, Luca

Matijašic, Ivan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Luca Iori , University of Parma, Parma, Italy; Ivan Matijašic , Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy.