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Revolution : Modern Uprisings in Ancient Time - Miriam Leonard

Revolution

Modern Uprisings in Ancient Time

By: Miriam Leonard

Paperback | 15 January 2026 | Edition Number 1

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A consideration of how modern revolutions have employed tropes of classical antiquity.

Despite its Latin etymology, "revolution" in its modern understanding arguably did not exist in antiquity, and revolution as we know it today is considered by many theorists to be a term born in modernity. While they certainly had times of momentous political upheaval, the Greeks and Romans tended to understand such events as part of a narrative of political continuity rather than novelty or rupture. Nevertheless, modern revolutions have repeatedly appropriated tropes of classical discourse, such as freedom, tyranny, tragedy, and fraternity.

With this book, Miriam Leonard offers a conceptual history of revolution, unraveling modernity's yearning for the new and questioning why ancient concepts continue to play such an important role in political uprisings. Leonard looks at examples of appeals to antiquity during the French and Haitian Revolutions, in anticolonial struggles, and feminist and queer movements and considers works of theorists such as Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt, and Sigmund Freud that foreground an engagement with antiquity.

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Non-FictionHistoryGeneral & World HistoryPhilosophyHistory of Western PhilosophyAncient Western PhilosophyEarliest Times to Present DayAncient History to the Year 500Modern History from 1700 to 1900Specific Events & Topics in HistoryNational Liberation & IndependenceRevolutions, Uprisings, Rebellions

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