Professor Kinch Hoekstra has a new piece out in Histos, which he explains is a journal of ancient historiography that political scientists will not encounter. It reflects a sample of a vast project in progress that he is undertaking with Luca Iori of the University of Parma, which will become a critical edition of Thomas Hobbes's translation of Thucydides. The sample is Hobbes's translation of Thucydides' account of the pandemic that devastated Athens from 430 BC, early in the Peloponnesian War. They provide an introduction to contextualize the piece, comment on Hobbes's translation, and lay out the principles of the edition. As the sample of the edition itself makes clear, they aim to provide a Greekless reader with the ability to see what Hobbes is doing with the Greek (and other resources) he has in front of him, so that readers are able to assess in detail the encounter of one of the greatest thinkers about politics with another of those thinkers.
