Global Thucydides: Editors, Readers, Translators (1848-2024)

The Global Thucydides project aims to bridge this historiographic gap by launching the first mapping of the reception of Thucydides outside the confines of Western Europe. The project particularly investigates instances, ways, and reasons why Thucydides became, over the past two centuries, an object of study within cultures significantly distant from those of Western Europe, which have traditionally dictated the dominant trends in the study of Greco-Roman antiquities. In this context, the Greek historian will be studied not only as a founding text of the European historiographical and political tradition, but also as a potentially shared heritage of non-European cultures, from the Americas to Africa, from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus to the Far East, far beyond the cultural legacies imposed by European colonialism.