How to do things with history : new approaches to Ancient Greece Machine generated contents note: Introduction Chapter 1: The Great Leap in Early Greek Politics and Political Thought: A Comparative Perspective Kurt A. Raaflaub Chapter 2: Pericles Utopia Reading of Thucydides and Plato Emily Greenwood Chapter 3: How to Turn History into Scenario: Platos Republic Book 8 on the Role of Political Office in Constitutional Change Melissa Lane Chapter 4: Cyrus appeared both great and good : Xenophon and the Performativity of Kingship Carol Atack Chapter 5: Jurors and Serial Killers: Loneliness Deliberation and Community in Ancient Athens Alastair J. L. Blanshard Chapter 6: The Sparta Game: Violence Proportionality Austerity Collapse Josiah Ober and Barry R. Weingast Chapter 7: Marx and Antiquity Wilfried Nippel Chapter 8: Marxism and Ancient History Kostas Vlassopoulos Chapter 9: Building for the State: A World Historical Perspective Walter Scheidel Chapter 10: Picturing History: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Tyrannicide in the Art of Classical Athens and Early Imperial China Jeremy Tanner Chapter 11: Imaginary Intercourse: an Illustrated History of Greek Pederasty Robin Osborne Chapter 12: The Boys from Cydathenaeum: Aristophanes versus Cleon Again Edith Hall Chapter 13: How to Write Anti Roman History Tim Whitmarsh Afterward Paul Cartledge How to Do Things with History is a collection of essays that explores current and future approaches to the study of ancient Greek cultural history. Rather than focus directly on methodology the essays in this volume demonstrate how some of the most productive and significant methodologies for studying ancient Greece can be employed to illuminate a range of different kinds of subject matter. These essays which bring together the work of some of the most talented scholars in the field are based upon papers delivered at a conference held at Cambridge University in September of 2014 in honor of Paul Cartledges retirement from the post of A. G. Leventis Professor of Ancient Greek Culture. For the better part of four decades Paul Cartledge has spearheaded intellectual developments in the field of Greek culture in both scholarly and public contexts. His work has combined insightful historical accounts of particular places periods and thinkers with a willingness to explore comparative approaches and a keen focus on methodology. Cartledge has throughout his career emphasized the analysis of practice the study not for instance of the history of thought but of thinking in action and through action. The assembled essays trace the broad horizons charted by Cartledges work: from studies of political thinking to accounts of legal and cultural practices to politically astute approaches to historiography. The contributors to this volume all take the parameters and contours of Cartledges work which has profoundly influenced an entire generation of scholars as starting points for their own historical and historiographical explorations. Those parameters and contours provide a common thread that runs through and connects all of the essays while also offering sufficient freedom for individual contributors to demonstrate an array of rich and varied approaches to the study of the past. How to Do Things with History is a collection of essays that explores current and future approaches to the study of ancient Greek cultural history. The essays in this volume demonstrate how particular methodologies for studying ancient Greece can be employed to illuminate a range of different kinds of subject matter