Was the Peloponnesian War a World War? History, Memory, and Uses of the Past
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https://doi.org/10.61497/90gp6c41Keywords:
thucydides, peloponnesian war, reception studies, worlds war, world warsAbstract
This article seeks to trace the origin of a fairly widespread analogy in current historiography that assimilates the Peloponnesian War with the World Wars that occurred in the first part of the 20th Century. It is asserted that this analogy represents a phenomenon of reception, whose validity stems from the particular interaction between reception, memory, and the uses of the past. On one hand, the reception of Thucydides is analyzed in the context of the First World War, while on the other, the privileged place that the two World Wars occupy in the historical memory of Western societies is examined. The article aims to demonstrate that this analogy belongs to reception studies rather than historiography about the ancient world.
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