SunoikisisDC 2015 University of Tbilisi Plan

University of Tbilisi, Georgia

In the framework of TSU Course SunoikisisDC 2015, the Faculty of Humanities of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU) funded the PhD students research project The History of Thucydides in Interdisciplinary Context. The theoretical and practical knowledge and skills gained through the course, will be used to conduct the research.

The project aims to analize some of particular hystoriographical and philological aspects of one of the most important and multidimensional works of ancient literature The History of Thucydides by means of both – traditional and modern interdisciplinary research methods. In the process of research the following methods will be used: the digital methods of analysis of author’s vocabulary and the structure of the text, comparative research, in-depth interview and etc. (Students supervisers: Prof. Rismag Gordeziani, Prof. Levan Gordeziani, Assoc. Prof. Irine Darchia)

The research will be conducted in the following four areas:

1. Relevance of The History of Thucydides for modern international relations (MA student Mariam Gogaladze).
2. Interpretation of The History of Thucydides from XX century’s ideological point of view (PhD student Ana Zhorzholiani).
3. Lexical and statistical analysis of the vocabulary of The History of Thucydides using digital methods (PhD student Tamar Lezhava).
4. Structural organization of The History of Thucydides (PhD student Tatia Mtvarelidze).

The problematics and results of research are relevant not only for Humanities (History and Philology) but also for Social Sciences, especially for Political Studies and International Relations.

Reception of Thucydides in the context of Soviet ideology is unknown for Western scientific society. Accordingly, the results of the project will be relevant and useful not only for Georgian but also for Western Scholars. The first results of research will be presented at the annual conference of the faculty of Humanities of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.

After the end of the project the publishing programme “Logos” will publish the joint work of the students and the academic staff in Georgian. Four articles will be published abroad. At least two of them will be published in peer reviewed journals. The project started started in March 2015 and will be finished in March 2016.