The muse of history the ancient Greeks from the enlightenment to the present

"The study of ancient Greece has been central to Western conceptions of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which successive generations have reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contempo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Murray, Oswyn, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard Universiy Press 2024
Edición:First Harvard University Press edition, 2024
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Past and present
  • The Western Traditions of Ancient History
  • Enlightenment Greece: Sparta versus Athens
  • Ireland Invents Greek History: The Lost Historian John Gast
  • The Philhellenes and Marathon
  • The Contested Reign of Mitford
  • Romantic History in Britain and Europe
  • Utilitarian History: Mill and Grote
  • Hegel, Niebuhr, and Critical History
  • Burckhardt and Cultural History
  • The Archaic Age
  • The Problem of Socrates
  • In Search of the Key to all Mythologies
  • The Repentance of Gilbert Murray
  • Saving Civilization: The Warburg Institute and the SPSL
  • Momigliano on Peace and Liberty
  • Momigliano in England
  • Fernand Braudel and the Mediterranean
  • The 'École de Paris'
  • Dark Times: The Cold War and the Triumph of Capitalism
  • The Crisis of Theory in History.