- Title
- Thucydides and the history of ideas: viewing Thucydides' Peloponnesian War anew : questions of qualitative understanding and insightfulness
- Creator
- Morpeth, Neil
- Relation
- Teaching History Issue December, p. 20-24
- Publisher
- History Teachers' Association of NSW
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2007
- Description
- Idealism, realism and history - Thucydides a complex amalgam of these notions and more. Thucydides' Peloponnesian War stands as a classical testament (an oftentimes argumentative testament) to the singular and general importance of the roles of perception, insight, and thoughtfulness as markstones of a true historian's craft - ancient modern and contemporary.
- Subject
- Thucydidesis; Peloponnesian War; history; idealism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1036467
- Identifier
- uon:13292
- Identifier
- ISSN:0040-0602
- Rights
- http://www.htansw.asn.au/teaching-history-journal
- Language
- eng
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