Members of the Project
Professor Neville Morley
Neville Morley is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol and Deputy Director of the Institute for Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition, as well as leading the project on Thucydides: reception, reinterpretation and influence. His main research interests are in the economic, social and ecological history of classical antiquity, particularly trade, demography, urbanisation and agriculture; in the reception of antiquity in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century economic and social thought, especially the critiques of modernity developed by Marx and Nietzsche; and in theoretical and philosophical approaches to historiography, including its narrative structures and rhetorical techniques.
He has recently published Antiquity and Modernity, on the mutual interdependence of those concepts during the 'long nineteenth century' (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), and The Roman Empire: roots of imperialism (Pluto Press, 2010) about Roman imperialism and its modern reception and influence. He is currently completing editorial work on a collection dealing with the modern reception of Thucydides (co-edited with Katherine Harloe of Reading University), including a paper on Wilhelm Roscher’s Thukydides. As part of the project he is editing a multi-author Handbook on the Recption of Thucydides (Wiley-Blackwell) and writing a monograph on Thucydides and the Idea of History (I.B.Tauris), as well as writing papers on such topics as Peter Handke’s readings of Thucydides and modern interpretations of the stasis at Corcyra.
Dr. Christine M. Lee
Christine Lee received her PhD in political science (international relations, political theory) from Duke University in 2009. Her work employs humanistic modes of inquiry to appraise and inform socio-scientific research, focusing especially on the ethical and political presuppositions and implications of various theoretical approaches to global politics.
In addition to her research on the reception of Thucydides, Christine is currently revising her doctoral thesis for publication. Her thesis, The Radicalism of Political Realism, critically investigates two strands of modern political realism and their divergent ethics, politics, and philosophical commitments: the mid- to late 20th century realism of Hans Morgenthau and E.H. Carr and the scientific realism of contemporary international relations scholarship. Through immanent critique and genealogy, the work demonstrates the scientific and political shortcomings of contemporary realism and reclaims the radical substantive concerns and methodological orientation of earlier realists. By examining what has happened to the predominant political tradition that frames our vision of international relations, The Radicalism of Political Realism aims to prompt a rethinking of the commitments and values that orient contemporary politics and political inquiry.
Ben Earley
PhD student, working on Thucydidean Influences on Eighteenth-Century Reconstructions of Athenian Democracy and Political Thought
Andreas Stradis
PhD student, working on Thucydides’ contribution to the tradition of the Western Way of War.
