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Author : Torrey James Luce
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0415105927
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 : Adam Parry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1975-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521205870
A consideration of authors and historians from fifth century BC onwards who shed light on the Greek tradition of historical writing.
Author : P. A. Brunt
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0198152426
Peter Brunt was Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford from 1970 to 1982. This book contains a selection of his writings on Greek history and thought. Some were previously published as papers in journals, but about a third of the volume is new. There are essays onGreek political history of the fifth century BC and on historiography, including an introduction to Thucydides designed for the more general reader, to which the author has now annexed a new study of Thucydides' funeral speech. Of the new essays, two examine the extent to which Plato and his pupilssought, or were able, to make any impact on the actual world of their time and the practicality of the model city in Plato's Laws; and a third discusses Aristotle's theory of slavery in relation to the actual Greek institution and to other attempts to justify slavery, as well as in the context ofAristotle's ethical doctrines.
Author : Mary Lefkowitz,James Romm
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781984854322
From the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient Greece as recorded by its first chroniclers “Just the thing to remind us that human history, though lamentably a work in progress, is always something we can understand better.”—Sarah Ruden, translator of The Gospels and author of The Face of Water The historians of ancient Greece were pioneers of a new literary craft; their work stands among the world’s most enduring and important legacies and forms the foundation of a major modern discipline. This highly readable edition includes new and newly revised translations of selections from Herodotus—often called the “father of history”—Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch, the four greatest Greek innovators of historical narrative. Here the reader will find their most important, and most widely taught, passages collected in a single volume. The excerpts chart the landmark events of ancient Greece and provide a comprehensive account of the entire classical Greek age. From the start the Greek historians demonstrated how broad and varied historical writing could be and brought their craft beyond a mere chronicle of past events. This volume explores each author’s interest in religion, leadership, character, and the lessons of war. How, for instance, should readers interpret Herodotus’ inclusion of speeches and dialogues, dreams, and oracles as part of the “factual” record? What did Thucydides understand about human nature that (as he said) stays constant throughout time? How did Plutarch frame historical biography as a means of depicting the moral qualities of great men? Complete with introductions to the works of each historian, footnotes providing context and explaining obscurities, maps, and an appendix on the Greek conduct of war, this volume is an invaluable resource for students and passionate readers of history alike.
Author : P. Nicolacopoulos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400920156
Our Greek colleagues, in Greece and abroad, must know (indeed they do know) how pleasant it is to recognize the renaissance of the philosophy of science among them with this fine collection. Classical and modern, technical and humane, historical and logical, admirably original and respectfully traditional, these essays will deserve close study by philosophical readers throughout the world. Classical scholars and historians of science likewise will be stimulated, and the historians of ancient as well as modern philosophers too. Reviewers might note one or more of the contributions as of special interest, or as subject to critical wrestling (that ancient tribute); we will simply congratulate Pantelis Nicolacopoulos for assembling the essays and presenting the book, and we thank the contributors for their works and for their happy agreement to let their writings appear in this book. R. S. C. xi INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Neither philosophy nor science is new to Greece, but philosophy of science is. There are broader (socio-historical) and more specific (academic) reasons that explain, to a satisfactory degree, both the under-development of philosophy and history of science in Greece until recently and its recent development to international standards. It is, perhaps, not easy to have in mind the fact that the modem Greek State is only 160 years old (during quite a period of which it was consider ably smaller than it is today, its present territory having been settled after World War II).
Author : John Marincola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 019922501X
This survey of more recent work on Herodotus, Thucydides and Polybius synthesises some of the most important research from the last few decades.
Author : Antony Erich Raubitschek
Publisher : Anma Libri
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001184742
Author : John Marincola
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748654666
This volume in The Edinburgh Leventis Studies series collects the papers presented at the sixth A. G. Leventis conference, It engages with new research and new approaches to the Greek past, and brings the fruits of that research to a wider audience.
Author : Mirko Canevaro
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474421782
The first full-length academic study to deal exclusively with female stardom in British cinema.
Author : Pernille Flensted-Jensen,Thomas Heine Nielsen,Mogens Herman Hansen,Lene Rubinstein
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 8772896280
Contains 35 articles devoted to different aspects of the Greek polis and is intended not only as a present for Mogens Herman Hansen on his sixtieth birthday, but also as a way of thanking him for his significant contributions to the field of Greek history over the past three decades.
Author : P. A. Brunt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002254054
This is a collection of P.A. Brunt's writings on Greek history and thought--some previously published in journals and others unpublished until now. Subjects covered include Greek political history of the fifth century B.C. and ancient historiography--including an introduction to Thucydides designed for the more general reader, to which the author has now annexed a new study of Thucydides' funeral speech. Four essays concern the relationship between Greek philosophical thinking and social and political conditions, and of these, three, which constitute about a third of the volume, are new. Two examine the extent to which Plato and his pupils sought, or were able, to make any impact on the contemporary world, and the practicality of the model city in Plato's Laws; the third discusses Aristotle's theory of slavery in relation to the actual Greek institution and to other attempts to justify slavery as well as in the context of Aristotle's own ethical doctrines.
Author : Ernst Badian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1081558889
Author : Henry Dickinson Westlake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001594893
Author : William Kendrick Pritchett
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press, 1965-c1985
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015885663
Professor Pritchett continues his study of topographical data to test the veracity of Greek historians. This sixth volume focuses on Pansanias's account of the sites in the Thyreatis, on the historical record on the use of the Thermopylai pass, and on Polybios's accounts of Philip V's march across the Peloponnesos in 219 B.C. and on Thermon in 218 B.C., with new identifications proposed for sites in Arkadia and Aitolia.
Author : John Bagnell Bury
Publisher : New York : Dover Publications
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Greece
ISBN : UOM:39015005260784
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.