Neville Morley

Antiquity and modernity

Preface. Note on References. 1. Untimely Knowledge. 2. The Great Transformation: ancient and modern economics. 3. Before Alienation: the classical critique of modern society. 4. An Aesthetic Education: the failings of modern culture. 5. History as Nightmare: conceptions of progress and decline. 6. Allusion and Appropriation: the rhetorical uses of antiquity. Bibliography of Sources. Bibliography. Index of Persons. Index of Subjects

Thucydides and the modern world: reception, reinterpretation and influence from the Renaissance to the present

1. Introduction: the modern reception of Thucydides Katherine Harloe and Neville Morley 2. Thucydides and the bellicose beginnings of early modern political theory Kinch Hoekstra 3. Thucydides the Thermidorian: democracy on trial in the making of modern liberalism Nadia Urbinati 4. Historicizing the classics: how nineteenth-century German historiography changed the perspective on historical tradition Johannes Sussmann 5. The education offered by Athens: Thucydides and the stirrings of democracy in Britain Elizabeth Potter 6. Thucydides, history and historicism in Wilhelm Roscher Neville Morley 7. Mourning and democracy: the Periclean epitaphios and its afterlife Jennifer Roberts 8. The Greek Thucydides: Venizelos translation of Thucydides Emily Greenwood 9. Thucydides and realism among the classics of international relations Steven Forde 10. International relations and Thucydides Richard Ned Lebow 11. Receiving Thucydides politically Geoffrey Hawthorn.

Thucydides and the Modern World: Introduction: the modern reception of Thucydides

During counsel in Charlottenburg, Oelssen [Section Head in the Ministry of Finance] animatedly defended the preparation of a quantity of paper money so that debts could be paid. All argument to the contrary failing, I said with immense audacity (knowing my man): ‘But Privy Councillor, do you not remember that Thucydides tells of the evils that followed from the circulation of too much paper money in Athens?’ ‘This experience,’ he concurred, ‘is certainly of great importance’ – and in this way he allowed himself to be persuaded in order that he might retain the appearance of learning.

Trade in Classical Antiquity

Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system, or a thin veneer on the surface of an underdeveloped agrarian society? Trade underpinned the growth of Athenian and Roman power, helping to supply armies and cities. It furnished the goods that ancient elites needed to maintain their dominance - and yet, those same elites generally regarded trade and traders as a threat to social order. Trade, like the patterns of consumption that determined its development, was implicated in wider debates about politics, morality and the state of society, just as the expansion of trade in the modern world is presented both as the answer to global poverty and as an instrument of exploitation and cultural imperialism. This 2007 book explores the nature and importance of ancient trade, considering its ecological and cultural significance as well as its economic aspects.