Moral History From Herodotus To Diodorus Siculus

Author : Hau Lisa Hau
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781474411080

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Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus by Hau Lisa Hau Pdf

Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across. Hau also shows how moral didacticism was an integral part of the writing of history from its inception in the 5th century BC, how it developed over the next 500 years in parallel with the development of historiography as a genre and how the moral messages on display remained surprisingly stable across this period. For the ancient Greek historiographers, moral didacticism was a way of making sense of the past and making it relevant to the present; but this does not mean that they falsified events: truth and morality were compatible and synergistic ends.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474422047

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Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lisa Irene Hau
Publisher : Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Greece
ISBN : 1474427138

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Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus by Lisa Irene Hau Pdf

Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across. Hau also shows how moral didacticism was an integral part of the writing of history from its inception in the 5th century BC, how it developed over the next 500 years in parallel with the development of historiography as a genre and how the moral messages on display remained surprisingly stable across this period. For the ancient Greek historiographers, moral didacticism was a way of making sense of the past and making it relevant to the present; but this does not mean that they falsified events: truth and morality were compatible and synergistic ends.

Author : Hugh Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1808
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : BSB:BSB10435559

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Enquiries Historical and Moral by Hugh Murray Pdf

Author : Joel Alden Schlosser
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226704982

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Herodotus in the Anthropocene by Joel Alden Schlosser Pdf

We are living in the age of the Anthropocene, in which human activities are recognized for effecting potentially catastrophic environmental change. In this book, Joel Alden Schlosser argues that our current state of affairs calls for a creative political response, and he finds inspiration in an unexpected source: the ancient writings of the Greek historian Herodotus. Focusing on the Histories, written in the fifth century BCE, Schlosser identifies a cluster of concepts that allow us to better grasp the dynamic complexity of a world in flux. Schlosser shows that the Histories, which chronicle the interactions among the Greek city-states and their neighbors that culminated in the Persian Wars, illuminate a telling paradox: at those times when humans appear capable of exerting more influence than ever before, they must also assert collective agency to avoid their own downfall. Here, success depends on nomoi, or the culture, customs, and laws that organize human communities and make them adaptable through cooperation. Nomoi arise through sustained contact between humans and their surroundings and function best when practiced willingly and with the support of strong commitments to the equality of all participants. Thus, nomoi are the very substance of political agency and, ultimately, the key to freedom and ecological survival because they guide communities to work together to respond to challenges. An ingenious contribution to political theory, political philosophy, and ecology, Herodotus in the Anthropocene reminds us that the best perspective on the present can often be gained through the lens of the past.

Author : Lisa Hau,Ian Ruffell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317558057

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Truth and History in the Ancient World by Lisa Hau,Ian Ruffell Pdf

This collection of essays investigates histories in the ancient world and the extent to which the producers and consumers of those histories believed them to be true. Ancient Greek historiographers repeatedly stressed the importance of truth to history; yet they also purported to believe in myth, distorted facts for nationalistic or moralizing purposes, and omitted events that modern audiences might consider crucial to a truthful account of the past. Truth and History in the Ancient World explores a pluralistic concept of truth – one in which different versions of the same historical event can all be true – or different kinds of truths and modes of belief are contingent on culture. Beginning with comparisons between historiography and aspects of belief in Greek tragedy, chapters include discussions of historiography through the works of Herodotus, Xenophon, and Ktesias, as well as Hellenistic and later historiography, material culture in Vitruvius, and Lucian’s satire. Rather than investigate whether historiography incorporates elements of poetic, rhetorical, or narrative techniques to shape historical accounts, or whether cultural memory is flexible or manipulated, this volume examines pluralities of truth and belief within the ancient world – and consequences for our understanding of culture, ancient or otherwise.

Author : Marnie Hughes-Warrington,Anne Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429681202

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Big and Little Histories by Marnie Hughes-Warrington,Anne Martin Pdf

This book introduces students to ethics in historiography through an exploration of how historians in different times and places have explained how history ought to be written and how those views relate to different understandings of ethics. No two histories are the same. The book argues that this is a good thing because the differences between histories are largely a matter of ethics. Looking to histories made across the world and from ancient times until today, readers are introduced to a wide variety of approaches to the ethics of history, including well-known ethical approaches, such as the virtue ethics of universal historians, and utilitarian approaches to collective biography writing while also discovering new and emerging ideas in the ethics of history. Through these approaches, readers are encouraged to challenge their ideas about whether humans are separate from other living and non-living things and whether machines and animals can write histories. The book looks to the fundamental questions posed about the nature of history making by Indigenous history makers and asks whether the ethics at play in the global variety of histories might be better appreciated in professional codes of conduct and approaches to research ethics management. Opening up the topic of ethics to show how historians might have viewed ethics differently in the past, the book requires no background in ethics or history theory and is open to all of those with an interest in how we think about good histories.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292779075

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Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1 by Anonim Pdf

2007 — A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 100-30 BCE) is our only surviving source for a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great. Yet this important historian has been consistently denigrated as a mere copyist who slavishly reproduced the works of earlier historians without understanding what he was writing. By contrast, in this iconoclastic work Peter Green builds a convincing case for Diodorus' merits as a historian. Through a fresh English translation of a key portion of his multi-volume history (the so-called Bibliotheke, or "Library") and a commentary and notes that refute earlier assessments of Diodorus, Green offers a fairer, better balanced estimate of this much-maligned historian. The portion of Diodorus' history translated here covers the period 480-431 BCE, from the Persian invasion of Greece to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. This half-century, known as the Pentekontaetia, was the Golden Age of Periclean Athens, a time of unprecedented achievement in drama, architecture, philosophy, historiography, and the visual arts. Green's accompanying notes and commentary revisit longstanding debates about historical inconsistencies in Diodorus' work and offer thought-provoking new interpretations and conclusions. In his masterful introductory essay, Green demolishes the traditional view of Diodorus and argues for a thorough critical reappraisal of this synthesizing historian, who attempted nothing less than a "universal history" that begins with the gods of mythology and continues down to the eve of Julius Caesar's Gallic campaigns.

Author : Giovanni Parmeggiani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Pierre Destrée,Jan Opsomer,Geert Roskam
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110733129

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Utopias in Ancient Thought by Pierre Destrée,Jan Opsomer,Geert Roskam Pdf

This collection deals with utopias in the Greek and Roman worlds. Plato is the first and foremost name that comes to mind and, accordingly, 3 chapters (J. Annas; D. El Murr; A. Hazistavrou) are devoted to his various approaches to utopia in the Republic, Timaeus and Laws. But this volume's central vocation and originality comes from our taking on that theme in many other philosophical authors and literary genres. The philosophers include Aristotle (Ch. Horn) but also Cynics (S. Husson), Stoics (G. Reydams-Schils) and Cicero (S. McConnell). Other literary genres include comedic works from Aristophanes up to Lucian (G. Sissa; S. Kidd; N.I. Kuin) and history from Herodotus up to Diodorus Siculus (T. Lockwood; C. Atack; I. Sulimani). A last comparative chapter is devoted to utopias in Ancient China (D. Engels).

Author : Phillip Harding
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108499279

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Diodoros of Sicily: Bibliotheke Historike by Phillip Harding Pdf

A fresh translation of Diodoros' account of a crucial period of Greek history, with extensive notes and a substantial Introduction.

Author : Allen J. Romano,John Marincola
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110672824

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Host or Parasite? by Allen J. Romano,John Marincola Pdf

Building upon the explosion of recent work on mythography, contributions to this volume direct attention to less frequently explored questions of how ancient poets, historians, and philosophers themselves adopted and adapted the work of mythographers. Study of the way that mythographers and their contemporaries take on positions of, alternately, “host” or “parasite” in relation to the other exposes the richness mythographic practice and the roles that mythographers played in the evolving Greco-Roman discourse of myth. From, among others, the seeds of mythographic discourse in Pindar and Plato, to the mythography of the Peripatics, the in-between mythography of Diodorus Siculus, and the “mythographic topography” of Pausanias, this volume invites a reappraisal of the role that mythography played at every stage of Greek thought about myth. Through contributions that explore both mythographers’ distinctive style of studying myth to other contributions that focus primarily on the how and why of non-mythographers’ use of mythographic techniques, what emerges is a picture of mythography that broadens our conception of mythography while at the same time inviting scholars to seek out more such echoes of mythographic discourse in the work of poets, historians, philosophers at large.

Author : Robert Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009220927

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Providence and Narrative in the Theology of John Chrysostom by Robert Edwards Pdf

This book is the first major study of providence in the thought of John Chrysostom, a popular preacher in Syrian Antioch and later archbishop of Constantinople (ca. 350 to 407 CE). While Chrysostom is often considered a moralist and exegete, this study explores how his theology of providence profoundly affected his larger ethical and exegetical thought. Robert Edwards argues that Chrysostom considers biblical narratives as vehicles of a doctrine of providence in which God is above all loving towards humankind. Narratives of God's providence thus function as sources of consolation for Chrysostom's suffering audiences, and may even lead them now, amid suffering, to the resurrection life-the life of the angels. In the course of surveying Chrysostom's theology of providence and his use of scriptural narratives for consolation, Edwards also positions Chrysostom's theology and exegesis, which often defy categorization, within the preacher's immediate Antiochene and Nicene contexts.

Author : Lennart Gilhaus,Anja Dorn,Imogen Herrad,Michael Meurer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783476058737

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Transgression and Deviance in the Ancient World by Lennart Gilhaus,Anja Dorn,Imogen Herrad,Michael Meurer Pdf

Social coexistence is made possible and regulated by norms. Which actions are labeled and sanctioned as transgressions of norms is the result of social negotiation processes. Transgression and norm deviance can both stabilize and undermine the existing norm system. The contributions to this anthology aim to provide some impulses on the relationship between norm and deviance in ancient societies by means of selected case studies from the Greek classical period to the Roman imperial period and to investigate the role of transgressive acts for the dynamics of social systems. In 8 contributions, among others on the cult of Artemis, on the tragedian Agathon, on Cicero, Lucan and Tacitus, the topic is treated in a model-like manner.

Author : Mario Baumann,Vasileios Liotsakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111320908

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Digressions in Classical Historiography by Mario Baumann,Vasileios Liotsakis Pdf

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.