Digressions In Classical Historiography

Author : Mario Baumann,Vasileios Liotsakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111320908

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Although digressive discourse constitutes a key feature of Greco-Roman historiography, we possess no collective volume on the matter. The chapters of this book fill this gap by offering an overall view of the use of digressions in Greco-Roman historical prose from its beginning in the 5th century BCE up to the Imperial Era. Ancient historiographers traditionally took as digressions the cases in which they interrupted their focused chronological narration. Such cases include lengthy geographical descriptions, prolepses or analepses, and authorial comments. Ancient historiographers rarely deign to interrupt their narration's main storyline with excursuses which are flagrantly disconnected from it. Instead, they often "coat" their digressions with distinctive patterns of their own thinking, thus rendering them ideological and thematic milestones within an entire work. Furthermore, digressions may constitute pivotal points in the very structure of ancient historical narratives, while ancient historians also use excursuses to establish a dialogue with their readers and to activate them in various ways. All these aspects of digressions in Greco-Roman historiography are studied in detail in the chapters of this volume.

Author : Mario Baumann, Vasileios Liotsakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111321158

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Digressions in Classical Historiography by Mario Baumann, Vasileios Liotsakis Pdf

Author : A.J. Woodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135785215

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Rhetoric in Classical Historiography by A.J. Woodman Pdf

Professor Woodman's radical study argues against the view that the historian's craft has remained largely unchanged since classical times. A thought-provoking discussion of ancient historiographical theory.

Author : Edwin Shaw
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004501737

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Sallust and the Fall of the Republic by Edwin Shaw Pdf

This book offers a new interpretation of the Roman historian Sallust: it reads his works as complex and engaged contributions to the intellectual life of his period, offering a coherent and contemporary perspective on the end of the Roman Republic.

Author : Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004516922

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Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire by Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou Pdf

This book argues that Herodian uses an orderly and coherent historiographical form to reconfigure and explicate a most chaotic period of Roman history. Through patterning he offers a distinctive interpretative framework in which successive reigns and individual emperors need to be read in a dovetailed way.

Author : John Marincola
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444393828

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A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography by John Marincola Pdf

This two-volume Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of ancient historiography in the past few decades. Comprises a series of cutting edge articles written by recognised scholars Presents broad, chronological treatments of important issues in the writing of history and antiquity These are complemented by chapters on individual genres and sub-genres from the fifth century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E. Provides a series of interpretative readings on the individual historians Contains essays on the neighbouring genres of tragedy, biography, and epic, among others, and their relationship to history

Author : Vasileios Liotsakis,Scott Farrington
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110496055

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The Art of History by Vasileios Liotsakis,Scott Farrington Pdf

A significant trend in the study of Greek and Roman historiographers is to accept that their works are to a degree both science and fiction. As scholarly interest broadens, in addition to evaluating ancient historians on the basis of the reliability of the information they record, and verifying the narratives against various elements of the material (inscriptions, excavations, numismatics), new studies are beginning to elaborate on the stylistic and narrative qualities of the texts themselves. The present volume offers a fine collection of essays that on the whole emphasize the literary dimensions of the ancient Greek and Roman historians. Offering narratological, linguistic, and theoretical approaches to historiography, the contributors of the book elaborate on the intersections between historiography and other literary genres, the literary manipulation of military events and the criteria of selectivity, the reception of ancient historical texts in other genres, time and space in historical narrative, and plenty of other relevant topics. The shared belief of the authors is that there is a close interrelation between the literary features and the scientific value of ancient Greek and Roman historiography.

Author : John Van Seters
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 1575060132

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In Search of History by John Van Seters Pdf

The primary concern of the book is to understand the origins and nature of history-writing in ancient Israel. The investigation is undertaken against the background of history-writing in the Near Eastern and classical worlds. Professor Van Seters begins with a broad survey of all the historiographic material relevant for the study of Israel's own writing of history. He then turns his attention to the question of Israel's historiography by focusing particularly on the Deuteronomistic Historian, the first Israelite historian.

Author : Luke Pitcher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857718037

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Writing Ancient History by Luke Pitcher Pdf

'History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon', said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of history, especially ancient history, is a practice that often prompts more discord than assent. In his new textbook, Luke Pitcher aims to overcome the hostility which exists between two rival camps in their study of classical historiography. The first camp looks at the classical historians with an eye to what data they can provide about the ancient world. The second camp examines the ancient writers as literary texts in their own right, employing the tools of literary criticism and engaging with such matters as narrative artistry.Attempting to fuse these two - mutually suspicious - approaches, Luke Pitcher's attractive introduction offers undergraduate students of classics the first comprehensive introduction to historiography in antiquity on the market. It unites the nitty-gritty of the historian's trade (the finding and managing of data) to an awareness of the importance of style, form, allusion and composition. The book also seeks to do justice to individual classical historians, and discusses such important figures as Livy, Tacitus, Herodotus, Cicero, Plutarch and Lucian. A comprehensive bibliography and glossary are included. "Writing Ancient History" at last does full justice to the mechanics of history-writing in the ancient world.

Author : Gabriele Marasco
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047400189

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Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity by Gabriele Marasco Pdf

This book offers the first comprehensive study of Greek and Latin historiography from Constantine to the age of Justinian, dealing particularly with the relations between pagan and Christian historians, their polemics and also their agreements. Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity has been selected by Choice as Outstanding Academic Title (2005).

Author : P. Hicks
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230376151

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Neoclassical History and English Culture by P. Hicks Pdf

This book looks at neo-classicism as a context for understanding early-modern English historical writing, and traces the implications of neo-classical history for English political culture at large. By paying close attention to historical genres and audiences, it reassesses both the famous and lesser-known historians of this era, dramatizing them as engaged in a struggle to preserve ancient models of historical composition in the face of a rapidly modernizing society characterized by party politics, print, Christianity, and antiquarian erudition.

Author : John Racin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Historiography
ISBN : UOM:39015013240182

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Sir Walter Ralegh as Historian by John Racin Pdf

Author : Anthony John Woodman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0198152582

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Tacitus Reviewed by Anthony John Woodman Pdf

Professor Woodman argues that the 'Annals' is a very familiar text, and through this familiarity passages have been misconstrued, perpetuating a distorted view of what Tacitus has to say. The author aims to disclose the true meaning.

Author : Jacqueline M. Burek
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781914049101

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Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century by Jacqueline M. Burek Pdf

Histories of Britain composed during the "twelfth-century renaissance" display a remarkable amount of literary variety (Latin varietas). Furthermore, British historians writing after the Norman Conquest often draw attention to the differing forms of their texts. But why would historians of this period associate literary variety with the work of history-writing? Drawing on theories of literary variety found in classical and medieval rhetoric, this book traces how British writers came to believe that varietas could help them construct comprehensive, continuous accounts of Britain's past. It shows how Latin prose historians, such as William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Geoffrey of Monmouth, filled their texts with a diverse array of literary forms, which they carefully selected and ordered in accordance with their broader historiographical aims. The pronounced literary variety of these influential histories inspired some Middle English verse chroniclers, including Laȝamon and Robert Mannyng, to adopt similar principles in their vernacular poetry. By uncovering the rhetorical and historiographical theories beneath their literary variety, this book provides a new framework for interpreting the stylistic and organizational choices of medieval historians.

Author : Anthony J. Woodman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0709952562

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Rhetoric in classical historiography by Anthony J. Woodman Pdf