The Thucydidean Clio between Machiavelli and Hobbes (the historian’s heroic figurations)

The article, taking as the first directive of this reflection the declaration made by Césare Ripa which considers Thucydides as a name that defines the writing of history, and then examining the corresponding figuration of the ancient historian as the paradigm of historiographical excellence made by...

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Autor: Pires, Francisco Murari
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Anos 90 (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/44526
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/44526
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Thucydides
Historian
Early modern historiography
Tucídides
Historiador
Historiografia moderna
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Sumario:The article, taking as the first directive of this reflection the declaration made by Césare Ripa which considers Thucydides as a name that defines the writing of history, and then examining the corresponding figuration of the ancient historian as the paradigm of historiographical excellence made by Jean Bodin, by La Popelinière and by Thomas Hobbes, is intended to identify the link between the ancient category of hero and the modern category of genius the conceptual intrigue by which responds this first apologetics figuration of Thucydides on the horizon of modern historiographical thought, which would have its apotheosis in the nineteenth century with the “Germans Thucydideans” (Niebuhr, Ranke and E. Meyer).