Katherine Harloe is a lecturer in the Department of Classics at the University of Reading. Neville Morley is Professor of Ancient History in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol.

• 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 Süßmann; 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.

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