On Writing History From Herodotus To Herodian

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141393582

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On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian by Anonim Pdf

What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology, translated and edited by Professor John Marincola, contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history in the ancient world. The study of history was invented in the classical world. Treading uncharted waters, writers such as Plutarch and Lucian grappled with big questions such as how history should be written, how it differs from poetry and oratory, and what its purpose really is. This book includes complete essays by Dionysius, Plutarch and Lucian, as well as shorter pieces by Pliny the Younger, Cicero and others, and will be an essential resource for anyone studying history and the ancient world.

Author : Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Herodotus
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076001720825

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The Histories by Herodotus Pdf

The story of the Greek city-states uniting to repel a superior Persian army is the main theme in this classical narrative, but Herodotus fleshes out his text with digressions, describing the wonders of Egypt and recounting stories and folk tales.

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0521596505

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Herodotus: Histories Book IX by Herodotus Pdf

Book IX of Herodotus' Histories provides the conclusion and climax to his work, as the victories at Plataea and Mycale complete the improbable Greek victory over Persia. The major themes of the work are all here echoed, modified, and revisited, and Book IX is thus essential for exploring its meaning (or range of possible meanings). This commentary, the first in English devoted solely to Book IX in over a century, treats Herodotus' work as both an historical narrative and a work of literature, incorporating the results of recent scholarly work in the fields of Greek history and historiography. It contains a Greek text together with detailed philological, literary, and historical notes designed to assist the intermediate and advanced Greek student. It will also be of use to graduate students and scholars.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004500457

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Herodian's World by Anonim Pdf

The volume collects fourteen essays on Herodian that investigate the most important aspects of his historiography: literature, politics, economy, religion and warfare.

Author : Thea S. Thorsen,Stephen Harrison
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110594430

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Dynamics of Ancient Prose by Thea S. Thorsen,Stephen Harrison Pdf

Ancient prose is intriguingly diverse. This volume explores the dynamics of the Latin and Greek prose of the Roman empire in the forms of biography, novel and apologetics which have historically lacked recognition as uncanonical genres, and yet appear vital today. Focusing on the sophistication in thought and artistic texture to be found within these literary kinds, this volume offers a collection of stimulating essays for students and scholars of literature and culture in antiquity - and beyond.

Author : Stanley Burstein
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Juliana Bastos Marques,Federico Santangelo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350269460

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Authority and History by Juliana Bastos Marques,Federico Santangelo Pdf

This book examines authority in discourse from ancient to modern historians, while also presenting instances of current subversions of the classical rhetorical ethos. Ancient rhetoric set out the rules of authority in discourse, and directly affected the claims of Greek and Roman historians to truth. These working principles were consolidated in modern tradition, but not without modifications. The contemporary world, in its turn, subverts in many new ways the weight of the author's claim to legitimacy and truth, through the active role of the audiences. How have the ancient claims to authority worked and changed from their own times to our post-modern, digital world? Online uses and outreach displays of the classical past, especially through social media, have altered the balance of the authority traditionally bestowed upon the ancients, demonstrating what the linguistic turn has shown: the role of the reader is as important as that of the writer.

Author : Regina M. M. Loehr
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003835110

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Emotion and Historiography in Polybius’ Histories by Regina M. M. Loehr Pdf

This volume explores emotion and its importance in Polybius’ conception of history, his writing of historiography, and the benefits of this understanding to readers of history. How and why did ancient historians include emotions in their texts? This book argues that in the Histories of Polybius – the Greek historian who recorded Rome’s rise to dominion in the ancient Mediterranean – emotions play an effective role in history, used by the historian to explain the causes of actions, connect events, and make sense of human behavior. Through analysis of the emotions in the narrative and theory of Polybius’ Histories using critical terminology and frameworks from modern philosophy, psychology, and political science, this work calls into question assumptions that emotions were purely irrational and detrimental in ancient history, politics, and historiography. Emotions often positively shape Polybius’ historical narrative, provide criteria for the success and morality of agents, actions, and even historians, and aid the historian in guiding readers to become intelligent leaders and citizens of a new world centered on Rome. Emotion and Historiography in Polybius’ Histories is a fascinating read for students and scholars of ancient historiography and history, as well as those working on ancient political thought, emotions in the ancient Greek world, and emotion in history and literature more broadly.

Author : Aaron Turner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110627305

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Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History by Aaron Turner Pdf

The distinction between ancient and modern modes of historical thought is characterized by the growing complexity of the discipline of history in modernity. Consequently, the epistemological and methodological standard of ancient historiography is typically held as inferior against the modern ideal. This book serves to address this apparent deficit. Its scope is three-fold. Firstly, it aims at encountering ancient modes of historical and historiographical thought within the province of their own horizon. Secondly, this book considers the possibility of a dialogue between ancient and modern philosophies of history concerning the influence of ancient historical thought on the development of modern philosophy of history and the utility of modern philosophy of history in the interpretation of ancient historiography. Thirdly, this book explores the continuities and discontinuities in historical method and thought from antiquity to modernity. Ultimately, this volume demonstrates the necessity of re-evaluating our assumptions about the relation of ancient and modern historical thought and lays the groundwork for a more fruitful dialogue in the future.

Author : Richard Stoneman,Krzysztof Nawotka, Agnieszka Wojciechowska
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789492444714

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The Alexander Romance: History and Literature by Richard Stoneman,Krzysztof Nawotka, Agnieszka Wojciechowska Pdf

The Alexander Romance is a difficult text to define and to assess justly. From its earliest days it was an open text, which was adapted into a variety of cultures with meanings that themselves vary, and yet seem to carry a strong undercurrent of homogeneity: Alexander is the hero who cannot become a god, and who encapsulates the desires and strivings of the host cultures. The papers assembled in this volume, which were originally presented at a conference at the University of Wrocław, Poland, in October 2015, all face the challenge of defining the Alexander Romance. Some focus on quite specific topics while others address more overarching themes. They form a cohesive set of approaches to the delicate positioning of the text between history and literature. From its earliest elements in Hellenistic Egypt, to its latest reworkings in the Byzantine and Islamic Middle East, the Alexander Romance shows itself to be a work that steadily engages with such questions as kingship, the limits of human (and Greek) nature, and the purpose of history. The Romance began as a history, but only by becoming literature could it achieve such a deep penetration of east and west.

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781802067293

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The Rise And Fall of Athens by Plutarch Pdf

Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal work What makes a leader? For Plutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine biographies, taken from his Parallel Lives, Plutarch illustrates the rise and fall of Athens through nine lives, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Plutarch ultimately held the weaknesses of its leaders responsible for the city's fall. His work is invaluable for its imaginative reconstruction of the past, and profound insights into human life and achievement. This edition of Ian Scott-Kilvert's seminal translation, fully revised with a new introduction and notes by John Marincola, now also contains Plutarch's attack on the first historian, 'On the Malice of Herodotus'.

Author : K. Scarlett Kingsley,Giustina Monti,Tim Rood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009159456

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The Authoritative Historian by K. Scarlett Kingsley,Giustina Monti,Tim Rood Pdf

A series of essays exploring tradition and innovation across the full temporal range of Greco-Roman historiography.

Author : Mario Baumann,Vasileios Liotsakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110764123

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Reading History in the Roman Empire by Mario Baumann,Vasileios Liotsakis Pdf

Although the relationship of Greco-Roman historians with their readerships has attracted much scholarly attention, classicists principally focus on individual historians, while there has been no collective work on the matter. The editors of this volume aspire to fill this gap and gather papers which offer an overall view of the Greco-Roman readership and of its interaction with ancient historians. The authors of this book endeavor to define the physiognomy of the audience of history in the Roman Era both by exploring the narrative arrangement of ancient historical prose and by using sources in which Greco-Roman intellectuals address the issue of the readership of history. Ancient historians shaped their accounts taking into consideration their readers’ tastes, and this is evident on many different levels, such as the way a historian fashions his authorial image, addresses his readers, or uses certain compositional strategies to elicit the readers’ affective and cognitive responses to his messages. The papers of this volume analyze these narrative aspects and contextualize them within their socio-political environment in order to reveal the ways ancient readerships interacted with and affected Greco-Roman historical prose.

Author : Mario Baumann, Vasileios Liotsakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111321158

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Digressions in Classical Historiography by Mario Baumann, Vasileios Liotsakis Pdf