Thucydides and Hobbes on Epidemics and Politics
From the Plague of Athens to England’s Rabies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6163022 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luka Ribarević (0000-0003-1983-2600, Fakultet političkih znanosti, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 7-30 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politička misao (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1846-8721 • E-ISSN: 0032-3241 |
| Publisher | Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia (PUBLISHER • HR) |
| DOI | 10.20901/pm.60.2.01 |
| OpenAlex | W4382582588 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
Thomas Hobbes’s England was deeply troubled by the successive plague visitations regularly occurring in the late 16th and 17th centuries. The catastrophic outbreak in 1625 found Hobbes working on the first ever direct translation of Thucydides’ History from Greek to English. This fact allows for the supposition that Hobbes paid special attention to Thucydides’ masterful account of the plague at Athens and its social and political consequences. These circumstances authorise the here proposed enquiry into the relation between Hobbes’s understanding of the state of nature in Leviathan and the epidemics, mediated by his experience of the plague and the translation of the plague narrative in Thucydides’ History
Ancient history · Art · Genealogy · LEVIATHAN (cipher · Literature · Narrative · Plague (disease · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · State (computer science · History · Law · Ottoman and Turkish Studies · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |