Greek Historiography

Author : Thomas F. Scanlon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119085805

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Greek Historiography by Thomas F. Scanlon Pdf

This volume provides an accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date survey of the ancient Greek genre of historical writing from its origins before Herodotus to the Greek historians of the Roman imperial era, seven centuries later. Focuses on the themes of power and human nature, causation, divine justice, leadership, civilization versus barbarism, legacy, and literary reception Includes thorough summaries alongside textual analysis that signpost key passages and highlight thematic connections, helping readers navigate their way through the original texts Situates historical writing among the forms of epic and lyric poetry, drama, philosophy, and science Uses the best current translations and includes a detailed list of further reading that includes important new scholarship

Author : Torrey James Luce
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0415105927

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The Greek Historians by Torrey James Luce Pdf

The Greeks invented history as a literary genre in the fifth century BC. This book follows the development of history from Herodotus, via Thucydides, Xenophon and Polybius, until the Hellenistic age.

Author : John Marincola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 019922501X

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Greek Historians by John Marincola Pdf

This survey of more recent work on Herodotus, Thucydides and Polybius synthesises some of the most important research from the last few decades.

Author : Ivan Matijašić
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110476279

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Shaping the Canons of Ancient Greek Historiography by Ivan Matijašić Pdf

The main focus of this book is the ancient formation and development of the canons of Greek historiography. It takes a fresh look on the modern debate on canonical literature and deals with Greek historiographical traditions in the works of ancient rhetors and literary critics. Writings on historiography by Cicero, Quintilian, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus are chiefly taken into account to explore the canons of Greek historians in Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Ages. Essential in canon-formation was the concept of classicism which took shape in the Age of Augustus, but whose earlier developments can be traced back to Isocrates, a model rhetor according to Dionysius at the end of the 1st century BC. The analysis explores also late-antique authors of school treatises and progymnasmata, a field where historiography had a pedagogical function. Previous studies on canonical literature have rarely considered historiography. This book examines not only the works of ancient historians and their legacy, but also the relationship between historiography, literary criticism, and the rhetorical tradition.

Author : Simon Hornblower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015063205051

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Greek Historiography by Simon Hornblower Pdf

The ancient Greek achievement in the writing of history set the standard for all time. The nature of that achievement, though, looks increasingly problematic in the light of recent work on such topics as literacy, orality, rhetoric, narrative technique, and the invention of tradition. In this book, eight ancient historians consider both the achievement and the problems involved in the study of the Greek historians. These essays reflect the best and most recent scholarship on the subject.

Author : Thomas F. Scanlon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119085799

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Greek Historiography by Thomas F. Scanlon Pdf

This volume provides an accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date survey of the ancient Greek genre of historical writing from its origins before Herodotus to the Greek historians of the Roman imperial era, seven centuries later. Focuses on the themes of power and human nature, causation, divine justice, leadership, civilization versus barbarism, legacy, and literary reception Includes thorough summaries alongside textual analysis that signpost key passages and highlight thematic connections, helping readers navigate their way through the original texts Situates historical writing among the forms of epic and lyric poetry, drama, philosophy, and science Uses the best current translations and includes a detailed list of further reading that includes important new scholarship

Author : John Bagnell Bury
Publisher : New York : Dover Publications
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Greece
ISBN : UCM:5305410519

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The Ancient Greek Historians by John Bagnell Bury Pdf

Professor Bury covers the entire range of Greek historical writing form from its inception in the pseudo-historical aspects of the epics to the influence of Greek thought on Roman historiography. He shows how the idea of history became separated from the concept of recording and inventing mythologies, the introduction of a rationalistic view of history, the concept of political analysis, the influence of rhetoric on historical methodology, the effects of philosophy and the rise of antiquarianism on history, and dozens of similarly important topics. - back of book.

Author : Alexandra Lianeri
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110430820

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Knowing Future Time In and Through Greek Historiography by Alexandra Lianeri Pdf

From the early modern period, Greek historiography has been studied in the context of Cicero's notion historia magistra vitae and considered to exclude conceptions of the future as different from the present and past. Comparisons with the Roman, Judeo-Christian and modern historiography have sought to justify this perspective by drawing on a category of the future as a temporal mode that breaks with the present. In this volume, distinguished classicists and historians challenge this contention by raising the question of what the future was and meant in antiquity by offering fresh considerations of prognostic and anticipatory voices in Greek historiography from Herodotus to Appian and by tracing the roots of established views on historical time in the opposition between antiquity and modernity. They look both at contemporary scholarly argument and the writings of Greek historians in order to explore the relation of time, especially the future, to an idea of the historical that is formulated in the plural and is always in motion. By reflecting on the prognostic of historical time the volume will be of interest not only to classical scholars, but to all who are interested in the history and theory of historical time.

Author : Thomas Francis Scanlon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Greece
ISBN : 1119085888

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Greek Historiography by Thomas Francis Scanlon Pdf

This volume provides an accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date survey of the ancient Greek genre of historical writing from its origins before Herodotus to the Greek historians of the Roman imperial era, seven centuries later. Focuses on the themes of power and human nature, causation, divine justice, leadership, civilization versus barbarism, legacy, and literary reception Includes thorough summaries alongside textual analysis that signpost key passages and highlight thematic connections, helping readers navigate their way through the original texts Situates historical writing among the forms of epic and lyric poetry, drama, philosophy, and science Uses the best current translations and includes a detailed list of further reading that includes important new scholarship.

Author : Jyri Vaahtera
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 3515079467

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Roman Augural Lore in Greek Historiography by Jyri Vaahtera Pdf

The augurs, the official Roman diviners, had a significant role in the public life of the Roman Republic. However, to recover the facts concerning their rites and doctrine is a difficult task because of the defectiveness and the fragmentary nature of our sources. This book offers the first thorough examination of the ways in which the augural doctrine has been treated by the Greek historians who have written about Rome. The main bulk of its material derives from four prominent writers of the Roman period: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Appian and Cassius Dio. Analysing the Greek sources from the point of view of language, style, bilingualism, and cultural context, the author not only sheds light on disputed matters of augural doctrine and Roman constitution, but also offers a good deal of new material that in various ways clarifies the meeting of the two cultures.

Author : Giovanni Parmeggiani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108831185

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Ephorus of Cyme and Greek Historiography by Giovanni Parmeggiani Pdf

Reconstructs Ephorus' lost Histories - the first "universal history", according to Polybius - through a new reading of the fragments.

Author : Henry Dickinson Westlake
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Essays on the Greek Historians and Greek History by Henry Dickinson Westlake Pdf

Author : Stanley Burstein
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781647920517

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The Essential Greek Historians by Stanley Burstein Pdf

"Burstein’s The Essential Greek Historians is an excellent collection of texts representing the development of historiography in the ancient Greek world. Each text is presented in an engaging and readable translation, with an insightful introduction exploring the purposes behind its composition, the significance of its contribution to the growth of historiography as a literary genre, and the context in which its author thought and wrote. These texts include not only familiar favorites like Herodotus and Thucydides, but also sources such as The Parian Marble and Memnon’s History of Heracleia, which give a broader and richer view of the ways in which Greeks engaged with history. In one economical volume, Burstein has created an indispensable introduction to the historical thought of the ancient Greeks. No student of Greek historiography should be without it." —Erik Jensen, Salem State University Includes an introduction, maps, and selections from Herodotus' The Histories, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's The Hellenica, Aristotle's The Constitution of Athens, The Parian Marble, Polybius' The Histories, Memnon's History of Heracleia, Plutarch's Life of Alexander. See the full Table of Contents on the www.hackettpublishing.com book title page.

Author : Cynthia B. Patterson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674041929

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The Family in Greek History by Cynthia B. Patterson Pdf

The family, Cynthia Patterson demonstrates, played a key role in the political changes that mark the history of ancient Greece. From the archaic society portrayed in Homer and Hesiod to the Hellenistic age, the private world of the family and household was integral with and essential to the civic realm. Early Greek society was rooted not in clans but in individual households, and a man's or woman's place in the larger community was determined by relationships within those households. The development of the city-state did not result in loss of the family's power and authority, Patterson argues; rather, the protection of household relationships was an important element of early public law. The interaction of civic and family concerns in classical Athens is neatly articulated by the examples of marriage and adultery laws. In law courts and in theater performances, violation of marital relationships was presented as a public danger, the adulterer as a sexual thief. This is an understanding that fits the Athenian concept of the city as the highest form of family. The suppression of the cities with the ascendancy of Alexander's empire led to a new resolution of the relationship between public and private authority: the concept of a community of households, which is clearly exemplified in Menander's plays. Undercutting common interpretations of Greek experience as evolving from clan to patriarchal state, Patterson's insightful analysis sheds new light on the role of men and women in Greek culture.

Author : John Van Seters
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,8 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.