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Author : Emily Baragwanath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0191710792
In her study of the representation of human motivation in Herodotus' 'Histories', Emily Baragwanath's focus is upon the sophisticated narrative techniques with which Herodotus represents this elusive kind of historical knowledge.
Author : Emily Baragwanath
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191552335
In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC, Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and perceptions that shaped those events and became critical to their interpretation afterwards. Much as the contemporary sophists strove to discover truth about the invisible, Herodotus was acutely concerned to uncover hidden human motivations, whose depiction was vital to his project of recounting and explaining the past. Emily Baragwanath explores the sophisticated narrative techniques with which Herodotus represented this most elusive variety of historical knowledge. Thus he was able to tell a lucid story of the past while nonetheless exposing the methodological and epistemological challenges it presented. Baragwanath illustrates and analyses a range of these techniques over the course of a wide selection of Herodotus' most intriguing narratives - from those on Athenian democracy and tyranny to Leonidas and Thermopylae - and thus supplies a method for reading the Histories more generally.
Author : , Emily Baragwanath,Mathieu de Bakker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199693979
This volume brings together 13 original articles which review, re-establish, and rehabilitate the origins, forms, and functions of the mythological elements that are found in the narratives of Herodotus' Histories.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789077922668
Author : A. D. Morrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108492324
Argues that Herodotus is key to understanding genre and the relationship between past and present in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004383340
In Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative fourteen specialists study, from literary, linguistic and historical angles the textual strategies that the Greek historian Herodotus and the Roman historian Livy employ in their accounts of two famous battles in ancient history
Author : Peter Hühn,John Pier,Wolf Schmid
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110617481
This handbook brings together 42 contributions by leading narratologists devoted to the study of narrative devices in European literatures from antiquity to the present. Each entry examines the use of a specific narrative device in one or two national literatures across the ages, whether in successive or distant periods of time. Through the analysis of representative texts in a range of European languages, the authors compellingly trace the continuities and evolution of storytelling devices, as well as their culture-specific manifestations. In response to Monika Fludernik’s 2003 call for a "diachronization of narratology," this new handbook complements existing synchronic approaches that tend to be ahistorical in their outlook, and departs from postclassical narratologies that often prioritize thematic and ideological concerns. A new direction in narrative theory, diachronic narratology explores previously overlooked questions, from the evolution of free indirect speech from the Middle Ages to the present, to how changes in narrative sequence encoded the shift from a sacred to a secular worldview in early modern Romance literatures. An invaluable new resource for literary theorists, historians, comparatists, discourse analysts, and linguists.
Author : Jan Haywood,Naoise Mac Sweeney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350012691
In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoíse Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer's Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition through a series of detailed case studies. From ancient Mesopotamia to twenty-first century America, these examples are drawn from a range of historical and cultural contexts; and from Athenian pot paintings to twelfth-century German scholarship, they engage with a range of different media and genres. Inspired by the dialogues inherent in the process of reception, the book adopts a dialogic structure. In each chapter, paired essays by Haywood and Mac Sweeney offer contrasting authorial voices addressing a single theme, thereby drawing out connections and dissonances between a diverse suite of classical and post-classical Iliadic receptions. The resulting book offers new insights, both into individual instances of Iliadic reception in particular historical contexts, but also into the workings of a complex story tradition. The centrality of the Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition is shown to be a function of conscious engagement not only with Iliadic content, but also with Iliadic status and the iconic idea of the Homeric.
Author : Vasiliki Zali
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004283589
In The Shape of Herodotean Rhetoric, Vasiliki Zali offers a fresh assessment of Herodotus’ rhetorical awareness. Redressing the usual view that considers Thucydides as a significant jump from earlier authors in the rhetorical tradition, Zali attempts to find a place for Herodotus. The volume explores the direct and indirect speeches in Herodotus’ fifth to ninth books, focusing in particular on the ways in which they highlight two major narrative themes: the fragility of Greek unity and the problematic Greco-Persian polarity. Through discussion of case studies and Herodotus’ literary background, Zali brings Herodotus’ sophisticated rhetorical system to life, examines the ways in which this system affects Herodotus’ authority, and demonstrates that Herodotus occupies a crucial place in the development of rhetoric.
Author : Marnie Hughes-Warrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134482535
Fifty Key Thinkers on History is an essential guide to the most influential historians, theorists and philosophers of history. The entries offer comprehensive coverage of the long history of historiography ranging from ancient China, Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. This third edition has been updated throughout and features new entries on Machiavelli, Ranajit Guha, William McNeil and Niall Ferguson. Other thinkers who are introduced include: Herodotus Bede Ibn Khaldun E. H. Carr Fernand Braudel Eric Hobsbawm Michel Foucault Edward Gibbon Each clear and concise essay offers a brief biographical introduction; a summary and discussion of each thinker’s approach to history and how others have engaged with it; a list of their major works and a list of resources for further study.
Author : George T. Calofonos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317148159
Although the actual dreaming experience of the Byzantines lies beyond our reach, the remarkable number of dream narratives in the surviving sources of the period attests to the cardinal function of dreams as vehicles of meaning, and thus affords modern scholars access to the wider cultural fabric of symbolic representations of the Byzantine world. Whether recounting real or invented dreams, the narratives serve various purposes, such as political and religious agendas, personal aspirations or simply an author’s display of literary skill. It is only in recent years that Byzantine dreaming has attracted scholarly attention, and important publications have suggested the way in which Byzantines reshaped ancient interpretative models and applied new perceptions to the functions of dreams. This book - the first collection of studies on Byzantine dreams to be published - aims to demonstrate further the importance of closely examining dreams in Byzantium in their wider historical and cultural, as well as narrative, context. Linked by this common thread, the essays offer insights into the function of dreams in hagiography, historiography, rhetoric, epistolography, and romance. They explore gender and erotic aspects of dreams; they examine cross-cultural facets of dreaming, provide new readings, and contextualize specific cases; they also look at the Greco-Roman background and Islamic influences of Byzantine dreams and their Christianization. The volume provides a broad variety of perspectives, including those of psychoanalysis and anthropology.
Author : Mario Baumann,Vasileios Liotsakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111320908
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 : Irene J. F. de Jong
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199688692
Narratology and the Classics is the first introduction to narratology that deals with classical narrative in epic, historiography, biography, the ancient novel, but also the many narratives inserted in drama or lyric.
Author : Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110574715
In the Parallel Lives Plutarch does not absolve his readers of the need for moral reflection by offering any sort of hard and fast rules for their moral judgement. Rather, he uses strategies to elicit readers’ active engagement with the act of judging. This book, drawing on the insights of recent narrative theories, especially narratology and reader-response criticism, examines Plutarch’s narrative techniques in the Parallel Lives of drawing his readers into the process of moral evaluation and exposing them to the complexities entailed in it. Subjects discussed include Plutarch’s prefatory projection of himself and his readers and the interaction between the two; Plutarch’s presentation of the mental and emotional workings of historical agents, which serves to re-enact the participants’ experience at the time and thus arouse empathy in the readers; Plutarch’s closural strategies and their profound effects on the readers’ moral inquiry; Plutarch’s principles of historical criticism in On the malice of Herodotus in relation to his narrative strategies in the Lives. Through illustrating Plutarch’s narrative technique, this book elucidates Plutarch’s praise-and-blame rhetoric in the Lives as well as his sensibility to the challenges inherent in recounting, reading about, and evaluating the lives of the great men of history.
Author : Q. Edward Wang,Okamoto Michihiro,Longguo Li
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110717532
This volume provides a unique and critical perspective on how Chinese, Japanese and Korean scholars engage and critique the West in their historical thinking. It showcases the dialogue between Asian experts and their Euro-American counterparts and offers valuable insights on how to challenge and overcome Eurocentrism in historical writing.
