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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| 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 |
| 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). |
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