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).

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• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xivIntroduction 1Christine Lee and Neville MorleyPart I Scholarship, Criticism, and Education 111 Thucydides’ Ancient Reputation 13Valérie Fromentin and Sophie Gotteland2 The Renaissance 26Marianne Pade3 The Speeches of Thucydides and the Renaissance Anthologies 43J. Carlos Iglesias-Zoido4 Carving Up Thucydides 61Jeffrey S. Rusten5 Thucydides as an Educational Text 75Oliver Schelske6 On Translating Thucydides 91Emily GreenwoodPart II Thucydides the Historian 1237 Thucydides and His “Contemporaries” 125Ellen O’Gorman8 The Thucydidean Clio between Machiavelli and Hobbes 141Francisco Murari Pires9 The Reception of Thucydides in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France 158Pascal Payen10 On Historical Time and Method 176Alexandra Lianeri11 Thucydides in Nineteenth-Century Germany 197Klaus Meister12 Thucydides in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 218Jon HeskPart III Thucydides the Political Theorist 23913 Hobbes and His Contemporaries 241James Jan Sullivan14 “L’historien des politiques” 261Ben Earley15 The Straussian Thucydides 278Seth N. Jaffe16 Realism, Constructivism, and Democracy in the History 296John Zumbrunnen17 Thucydides and the Problem of Citizenship 313Gerald Mara18 Thucydides and Democratic Horizons 332Christine LeePart IV Thucydides the Strategist 35319 The Reception of Thucydides in the History of International Relations 355Edward Keene20 Thucydides and the Just War Tradition 373Cian O’Driscoll21 Thucydides the Realist? 391Laurie M. Johnson22 Thucydides Our Father, Thucydides Our Shibboleth 406Timothy J. Ruback23 Thucydides in the Staff College 425Andreas StradisPart V Thucydidean Themes 44724 Thucydides and the Plague 449Helen King and Jo Brown25 The Reception of Thucydides’ Archaeology 474Tim Rood26 Thucydidean Concepts 493Lorna Hardwick27 Thucydides, Science, and Late Modern Philosophy 512Thom Workman28 Thucydides in Modern Political Rhetoric 529Elizabeth SawyerPart VI Thucydidean Reflections 54929 Why We Need To Read Thucydides – Even When “We” Are Only A Few 551Hunter R. Rawlings III30 Why Teach Thucydides Today? (And If We’re At It, How?) 560Clifford Orwin31 Everywhere Monuments of Good and Evil: Thucydides in the Twenty-First Century 568Gregory Crane32 Receiving the Reception 579Geoffrey HawthornPart VII Conclusion 58933 The Idea of Thucydides in the Western Tradition 591Neville MorleyIndex 605