Bishop Connop Thirlwall: Historian of Ancient Greece

University of Cyprus
From the SelectedWorks of Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Fall October 23, 2002
Bishop Connop Thirlwall: Historian of Ancient
Greece
Kyriakos N. Demetriou, University of Cyprus
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kyriakos_demetriou/16/
Direzione: Luciano Canfora
Abbonamento annuale
Sommario
SAGGI
Luigi Ferreri, La Biblioteca del tiranno. Una proposta di interpretazione della
cosiddetta redazione pisistratea dei poemi omerici
Kyriakos N. Demetriou, Bishop Connop Thirlwall: Historian of Ancient Greece
Sergio Valzania, Cleone, l'eredità negata
Oddone Longo, L'embrione è un essere vivente?
In the eighteenth century Athenian democracy represented a malfunctioning model to be
avoided at all costs. Instead, Grote’s political and philosophical vision of Greece focused on
Periclean democracy as the prototype of constitutional liberalism. One exception to the
politicized, historic-didactic compilations was undoubtedly the 8-volume History of Greece
(1835–44), written by Bishop Connop Thirlwall (article II). The work of this undeservedly
neglected classicist is here critically re-appraised, showing that it represents the practical
embodiment of the spirit of transition between partisan and ‘scientific’ historiography.
Constituting a bridge between the old and the new, and having fulfilled its role, Thirlwall’s work
was destined to sink into oblivion, virtually obscured in the shadow of George Grote’s Greece.
Mario Pani, Sulla funzione della corte nella Roma dei principi
Giuseppe Solaro, Ruhnken, Hemsterhutys e Karl Marx
Lucio Del Corso, I documenti nella Grecia classica tra produzione e conservazione
Rosa Otranto, «Le parole dei libri». Isidoro, Etym. VI,13 e Virgilio, Ecl. X,67
Maurizio Pettini, The Metamorphosis of 'Texts' into 'Sources' in Roman Social History.
Some examples from Richard Saller's Roman Kinship: Structure and Sentiment
Achille Lodovisi, Nuovi studi su Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
Michele Sarfatti, L'attività extrauniversitaria del prof. Giacomino Sarfatti
Baccar Gherib, Historicismes du Manifeste communiste
Fausto Montana, I «Cavalieri» di Aristofane e la riabilitazione di Temistocle