Classicising Crisis

Geopolitical shifts and economic shocks from the Early Modern period to the 21st century are frequently represented in terms of classical antecedents. In this book an international team of contributors - working across the disciplines of Classics History Politics and English - addresses a range of revolutionary transformations in England America France Haiti Greece Italy Russia Germany and a recently globalised world all of which were accorded the classical treatment. The chapters investigate discrete cases of classicising crisis while the Introduction highlights patterns among them. The book asks: are classical equations a prized ideal when evidence warrants or linkages forced by an implacable will to power or good faith attempts to make sense of events otherwise bafflingly unfamiliar and dangerous? Finally do the events thus classicised retain even increase their power to disturb and energise or are they ultimately contained? Classicising Crisis: The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire is essential reading for students and scholars of classics classical reception and political thought in Europe and the Americas. . Language: English