Neville Morley
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 529948 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Neville Morley |
| PRENOMES | Neville |
| SOBRENOME | Morley |
| ASSINATURA | MORLEY N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bristol |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Remaking Thucydides
All attempts at realizing Thucydides’ promise of ‘a possession for all time’ involve some degree of remaking: the translation of the text, at the least, but more commonly also processes of selection, decontextualization, simplification, and framing, as well as the development of an image of the author that legitimizes present-orientated readings. This is particularly obvious in the case of interpretations that present Thucydides as a conventional…
‘Freedom Is the Sure Possession’
Pericles’ funeral oration has played a significant public role, especially in Anglophone countries, over the last century. Renaissance humanists had valued it simply as a masterful piece of oratory, to be studied for its literary qualities. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was seen primarily as a source of historical information about Athenian culture, with no present significance. The great change came in the early nineteenth cent…
Sitta von Reden / Kai Ruffing (Hrsg.), Handbuch Antike Wirtschaft. (Handbücher zur Wirtschaftgeschichte.) Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter 2023
Capital in Classical Antiquity
Politics
This article explores ideas of decadence and decline in political thought, from classical Greek and Roman speculation about the cycle of political regimes to early modern discussions of the importance of civic virtue, the role of institutions and constitutions, and the dangerous effects of luxury, culminating in eighteenth-century concerns about the risk of excessive civilization. It also considers the varied political stances of the decadents th…
Thucydides’ Legacy in Grand Strategy
Thucydides is now a familiar name in the fields of politics, war, and strategy, but references to his work in discussions of grand strategy are usually superficial and sometimes problematic. He is treated as both ancient and modern, as an authoritative theorist whose views are then ignored in favor of the events of the war he described. This chapter explores the nature of Thucydides’ project, as a detailed narrative of past events that claims nev…
Thucydides and the Politics of Truth
Populism, fake news, international rivalries and plague: contemporary events seem to many commentators to echo those described by the ancient Greek historian Thucydides. There is a long tradition of seeing Thucydides as an authority on the present and future as well as the past. This is understood in different ways: historians emphasise the importance of historical knowledge, social scientists see him as a pioneer in normative political theory. H…
Edward J. Watts. Mortal Republic
For more than half a millennium, the Roman Republic has been an exemplary political system, a historical complement to more abstract speculation about the best way to organize society in the name of freedom and justice. For the French revolutionaries and the Enlightenment thinkers who inspired them, the early centuries of Roman history were a source of ideals, battle cries, and heroic examples; they showed that monarchies and tyrannies could be o…
Gender Bias and the Journal of Roman Studies
Reflecting on present unease about structural biases in the discipline, and aiming to offer a data-rich response to some recent criticisms of this Journal , the Editorial Board has undertaken a study of the representation of female scholars in the Journal of Roman Studies . To that end, we have gathered data on publications, submissions and JRS Editorial Board membership for the past fifteen years, from Volume 95 (2005) through to the present vol…
Legitimizing war and defending peace
Thucydides was one of many classical authors who was cited and reinterpreted in the course of the First World War, with parallels identified or asserted between his account of the war between Athens and Sparta and contemporary events. The origins of the Peloponnesian War, and especially the question of responsibility for the outbreak of hostilities, were debated by German classicists, while extracts from Pericles’ Funeral Oration were distributed…
Contextualism and Universalism in Thucydidean Thought
The aim of this chapter is to develop a framework for understanding the diverse traditions of interpretation and appropriation of Thucydides in the modern world; that is, the ways in which his work has been understood as offering useful and useable knowledge (not readings of the text as an end in themselves), and the ways in which ideas attributed to Thucydides have been deployed to support different intellectual projects.1 KeywordsInternational …
The Anti-Thucydides
Globalisation and the Roman economy
Thucydides and the Idea of History
From the eighteenth century onwards, the ancient Greek writer Thucydides (c.460 c.395 bc) was viewed as the most important classical historian. He was acclaimed not only as a vital source for reconstructing antiquity but as a purveyor of timeless political wisdom. His name is almost inescapable in nineteenth-century discussions of history's nature and purpose. And his spirit, or the image of him constructed by German historicists, remains a signi…
A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides
Consumption
Consumption is usually defined in economic terms in opposition to production and distribution, as the final stage in the circulation of goods.
Barter
Barter is a form of exchange without money changing hands. Goods or services are exchanged directly for other goods or services of equivalent value; this may take place in a single one‐off transaction or over a period of time (e.g., if someone offers a month's worth of labor in return for goods).
Autarky, self‐sufficiency
Autarky (Greek autarkeia ) was widely accepted as the ideal both for individuals and their households and for cities. In Thucydides' account of the funeral oration (2.63.3), Perikles argues that the best city is one that is self‐sufficient for both war and peace, meaning that it has the power to command the resources it requires from across the world and so is not dependent on local agriculture.
Capitalism
Capitalism is a term that is frequently used to describe the modern economy. Its application to pre‐Modern societies, including Antiquity, is highly controversial, for at least three interrelated reasons (Morley 2004: 33–50).
Introduction
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Thucydides, history and historicism in Wilhelm Roscher
Thucydides and the Modern World
The ancient Greek historian Thucydides has had an enormous impact on modern historiography, political theory, international relations and strategic studies, but this influence has never been properly studied. This book brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the different facets of Thucydides' modern reception and influence, from the birth of political theory in Renaissance Europe to the rise of scientific history …
Rome's imperial economy
The Classical Foundations of Population Thought
Slavery Under the Principate
INTRODUCTION The slave society of Roman Italy, characterised by the presence of large numbers of slaves (forming perhaps as much as 35 per cent of the population) in all kinds of activity from personal service to crafts to business to education, and in all regions and all levels of society from the depths of the countryside to the houses of the urban elite, developed over the course of the last two centuries bc . Over this same period, slave labo…
Antiquity and Modernity
Preface. Note on References. 1. Untimely Knowledge. 2. The Great Transformation: ancient and modern economics. 3. Before Alienation: the classical critique of modern society. 4. An Aesthetic Education: the failings of modern culture. 5. History as Nightmare: conceptions of progress and decline. 6. Allusion and Appropriation: the rhetorical uses of antiquity. Bibliography of Sources. Bibliography. Index of Persons. Index of Subjects
Thucydides and the Idea of History
From the eighteenth century onwards, the ancient Greek writer Thucydides (c.460 c.395 bc) was viewed as the most important classical historian. He was acclaimed not only as a vital source for reconstructing antiquity but as a purveyor of timeless political wisdom. His name is almost inescapable in nineteenth-century discussions of history's nature and purpose. And his spirit, or the image of him constructed by German historicists, remains a signi…
Theories, Models and Concepts in Ancient History
Morley's book offers the first accessible guide for students to show how theories, models and concepts have been applied to ancient history. Showing readers how they can use theory to interpret historical evidence for themselves, as well as to evaluate the work of others, the book includes a survey of key ideas and theories on a wide range of ancient historical topics including society and economy, the environment, gender and sexuality, and myth …
A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides
Gender Bias and the Journal of Roman Studies
Reflecting on present unease about structural biases in the discipline, and aiming to offer a data-rich response to some recent criticisms of this Journal , the Editorial Board has undertaken a study of the representation of female scholars in the Journal of Roman Studies . To that end, we have gathered data on publications, submissions and JRS Editorial Board membership for the past fifteen years, from Volume 95 (2005) through to the present vol…
Decadence as a Theory of History
The concept of decadence is closely related to ideas of temporality and historical change. However, although it is most commonly associated with the 'cyclical' approach to history offered by writers like Spengler and Toynbee, the idea of decadence is not dependent on a single theory of history for its intellectual underpinning; it is not necessarily tied to the organic metaphor, and it does not imply a single, unvarying trajectory towards a speci…
Ancient History
Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches is a sourcebook of writings on ancient history. It presents over 500 of the most important stimulating and provocative arguments by modern writers on the subject, and as such constitutes an invaluable reference resource. The first section deals with different aspects of life in the ancient world, such as democracy, imperialism, slavery and sexuality, while the second section covers the ideas of key ancie…
The Transformation of Italy, 225–28 B.C
For a study of social and economic questions an assessment of population is indispensable. It must make a difference to our picture of the agrarian troubles that vexed the late Republic, whether we take Italy to have been densely or thinly settled. Although debate continues on the causes, chronology, and extent of the ‘second-century crisis’ in Italy, a consensus has developed on its main symptom: the free peasantry, numbers already depleted by t…
Death-ritual and social structure in classical antiquity
Metropolis and Hinterland
Ancient Rome was one of the greatest cities of the pre-industrial era. Like other such great cities, it has often been deemed parasitic, a drain on the resources of the society that supported it. Rome's huge population was maintained not by trade or manufacture but by the taxes and rents of the empire. It was the archetypal 'consumer city'. However, such a label does not do full justice to the impact of the city on its hinterland. This book exami…
Metropolis and Hinterland
Political Economy and Classical Antiquity
Political Economy and Classical Antiquity Neville Morley The literature of the ancients, their legislation, their public treaties, and their administration of the conquered provinces, all proclaim their utter ignorance of the nature and origin of wealth, of the manner in which it is distributed, and of the effects of its consumption.... The steadily increasing progress of different branches of industry, the advancement of the sciences, whose infl…
Trajan's Engines
It was never a foregone conclusion that the Roman Empire should have made any significant use of steam power. The basic principles of the steam engine were certainly known by the mid-first century A.D., as seen in the ‘wind-ball’ ( aiölipile ) described by Hero of Alexandria in his treatise on Pneumatica . Hero's device, in which a copper sphere was made to rotate by jets of stream when the reservoir of water underneath was heated to boiling poin…
The Transformation of Italy, 225–28 B.C
For a study of social and economic questions an assessment of population is indispensable. It must make a difference to our picture of the agrarian troubles that vexed the late Republic, whether we take Italy to have been densely or thinly settled. Although debate continues on the causes, chronology, and extent of the ‘second-century crisis’ in Italy, a consensus has developed on its main symptom: the free peasantry, numbers already depleted by t…
Ancient History
Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches is a sourcebook of writings on ancient history. It presents over 500 of the most important stimulating and provocative arguments by modern writers on the subject, and as such constitutes an invaluable reference resource. The first section deals with different aspects of life in the ancient world, such as democracy, imperialism, slavery and sexuality, while the second section covers the ideas of key ancie…
Nietzsche and Antiquity
“Unhistorical Greeks”
Theories, Models and Concepts in Ancient History
Morley's book offers the first accessible guide for students to show how theories, models and concepts have been applied to ancient history. Showing readers how they can use theory to interpret historical evidence for themselves, as well as to evaluate the work of others, the book includes a survey of key ideas and theories on a wide range of ancient historical topics including society and economy, the environment, gender and sexuality, and myth …
Decadence as a Theory of History
The concept of decadence is closely related to ideas of temporality and historical change. However, although it is most commonly associated with the 'cyclical' approach to history offered by writers like Spengler and Toynbee, the idea of decadence is not dependent on a single theory of history for its intellectual underpinning; it is not necessarily tied to the organic metaphor, and it does not imply a single, unvarying trajectory towards a speci…
Making, moving and managing
The Early Roman Empire
The mobilization and distribution of resources, human and material, was the key to Roman power. The surplus production of an individual peasant household was small; the aggregate demand of the ancient peasantry was considerable. The key question is how far distribution under the empire differed in volume and nature. Archaeology has provided striking and conclusive evidence for a dramatic increase in the volume of goods being distributed within th…
Trade in Classical Antiquity
Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system, or a thin veneer on the surface of an underdeveloped agrarian society? Trade underpinned the growth of Athenian and Roman power, helping to supply armies and cities. It furnished the goods that ancient elites needed to maintain their dominance - and yet, those same elites generally regarded trade and…
Antiquity and Modernity
Preface. Note on References. 1. Untimely Knowledge. 2. The Great Transformation: ancient and modern economics. 3. Before Alienation: the classical critique of modern society. 4. An Aesthetic Education: the failings of modern culture. 5. History as Nightmare: conceptions of progress and decline. 6. Allusion and Appropriation: the rhetorical uses of antiquity. Bibliography of Sources. Bibliography. Index of Persons. Index of Subjects
Olive cultivation in ancient Greece
The Salubriousness of the Roman City
The Roman Empire
A millennium and a half after the end of the period of its unquestioned dominance, Rome remains a significant presence in western culture. This book explores what the empire meant to its subjects. The idea of Rome has long outlived the physical empire that gave it form, and now holds sway over vastly more people and a far greater geographical area than the Romans ever ruled. It continues to shape our understanding of the nature of imperialism, an…
Quantifying the Roman economy
Slavery Under the Principate
INTRODUCTION The slave society of Roman Italy, characterised by the presence of large numbers of slaves (forming perhaps as much as 35 per cent of the population) in all kinds of activity from personal service to crafts to business to education, and in all regions and all levels of society from the depths of the countryside to the houses of the urban elite, developed over the course of the last two centuries bc . Over this same period, slave labo…
Cities and Economic Development in the Roman Empire
This chapter sets out theoretical debate about urbanization in the Roman world and its possible relationship to the economy. Any comparative study of urbanization shows that entirely different processes within different societies can yield the same basic result, namely, the emergence of ‘the city’ in the sense of a built-up environment with a certain level of population living within a limited area. The ‘city’ is important not in its own right bu…
Why America is not a new Rome - By Vaclav Smil
Consumption
Consumption is usually defined in economic terms in opposition to production and distribution, as the final stage in the circulation of goods.
Barter
Barter is a form of exchange without money changing hands. Goods or services are exchanged directly for other goods or services of equivalent value; this may take place in a single one‐off transaction or over a period of time (e.g., if someone offers a month's worth of labor in return for goods).
Autarky, self‐sufficiency
Autarky (Greek autarkeia ) was widely accepted as the ideal both for individuals and their households and for cities. In Thucydides' account of the funeral oration (2.63.3), Perikles argues that the best city is one that is self‐sufficient for both war and peace, meaning that it has the power to command the resources it requires from across the world and so is not dependent on local agriculture.
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