Timaeus Of Tauromenium And Hellenistic Historiography

Author : Christopher A. Baron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107000971

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Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography by Christopher A. Baron Pdf

Timaeus of Tauromenium (350-260 BC) wrote the authoritative work on the Greeks in the Western Mediterranean and was important through his research into chronology and his influence on Roman historiography. Like almost all the Hellenistic historians, however, his work survives only in fragments. This book provides an up-to-date study of his work and shows that both the nature of the evidence and modern assumptions about historical writing in the Hellenistic period have skewed our treatment and judgement of lost historians. For Timaeus, much of our evidence is preserved in the polemical context of Polybius' Book 12. When we move outside that framework and examine the fragments of Timaeus in their proper context, we gain a greater appreciation for his method and his achievement, including his use of polemical invective and his composition of speeches. This has important implications for our broader understanding of the major lines of Hellenistic historiography.

Author : Truesdell Sparhawk Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000086617

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Timaeus of Tauromenium by Truesdell Sparhawk Brown Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : Thomas F. Scanlon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Timothy Howe,Sabine Müller,Richard Stoneman
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785703003

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Ancient Historiography on War and Empire by Timothy Howe,Sabine Müller,Richard Stoneman Pdf

In the ancient Greek-speaking world, writing about the past meant balancing the reporting of facts with shaping and guiding the political interests and behaviours of the present. Ancient Historiography on War and Empire shows the ways in which the literary genre of writing history developed to guide empires through their wars. Taking key events from the Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Macedonian and Roman ‘empires’, the 17 essays collected here analyse the way events and the accounts of those events interact. Subjects include: how Greek historians assign nearly divine honours to the Persian King; the role of the tomb cult of Cyrus the Founder in historical narratives of conquest and empire from Herodotus to the Alexander historians; warfare and financial innovation in the age of Philip II and his son, Alexander the Great; the murders of Philip II, his last and seventh wife Kleopatra, and her guardian, Attalos; Alexander the Great’s combat use of eagle symbolism and divination; Plutarch’s juxtaposition of character in the Alexander-Caesar pairing as a commentary on political legitimacy and military prowess, and Roman Imperial historians using historical examples of good and bad rule to make meaningful challenges to current Roman authority. In some cases, the balance shifts more towards the ‘literary’ and in others more towards the ‘historical’, but what all of the essays have in common is both a critical attention to the genre and context of history-writing in the ancient world and its focus on war and empire.

Author : Peter Thonemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107086968

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The Hellenistic World by Peter Thonemann Pdf

An accessible, vivid and up-to-date student-level introduction to the coinage and history of the Hellenistic world (323-31 BC).

Author : Regina M. M. Loehr
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003835165

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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 : Nigel Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136788000

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Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece by Nigel Wilson Pdf

Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.

Author : Torrey James Luce
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Paul A. Rahe
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781641773386

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Sparta's Sicilian Proxy War by Paul A. Rahe Pdf

The great expedition to Sicily described in the sixth and seventh books of Thucydides’ history can be depicted in a variety of ways. By some, it has been thoughtfully treated as an example of overreaching on the part of the Athenians. By others, it has been singled out as a sterling example of patriotism, courage, and grit on the part of the Syracusans. Never until now, however, has anyone examined this conflict from a Spartan perspective – despite the fact that Lacedaemon was the war’s principal beneficiary and that her intervention with the dispatch of a single Spartiate – turned the tide and decided the outcome. In Sparta’s Sicilian Proxy War, Paul Rahe first outlines the struggle’s origins and traces its progress early on, then examines the reasons for Sparta’s intervention, analyzes the consequences, and retells the story of Athens’ ignominious defeat. Rarely in human history has a political community gained so much at so little cost through the efforts of a single man.

Author : Daniel Moore
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004426122

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Polybius: Experience and the Lessons of History by Daniel Moore Pdf

The Greek historian Polybius (2nd century B.C.E.) produced an authoritative history of Rome’s rise to dominance in the Mediterranean that was explicitly designed to convey valuable lessons to future generations. But throughout this history, Polybius repeatedly emphasizes the incomparable value of first-hand, practical experience. In Polybius: Experience and the Lessons of History, Daniel Walker Moore shows how Polybius integrates these two apparently competing concepts in a way that affects not just his educational philosophy but the construction of his historical narrative. The manner in which figures such as Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, or even the Romans as a whole learn and develop over the course of Polybius’ narrative becomes a critical factor in Rome’s ultimate success.

Author : Maria Gerolemou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110563559

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Recognizing Miracles in Antiquity and Beyond by Maria Gerolemou Pdf

In recent years, scholars have extensively explored the function of the miraculous and wondrous in ancient narratives, mostly pondering on how ancient authors view wondrous accounts, i.e. the treatment of the descriptions of wondrous occurrences as true events or their use. More precisely, these narratives investigate whether the wondrous pursues a display of erudition or merely provides stylistic variety; sometimes, such narratives even represent the wish of the author to grant a “rational explanation” to extraordinary actions. At present, however, two aspects of the topic have not been fully examined: a) the ability of the wondrous/miraculous to set cognitive mechanisms in motion and b) the power of the wondrous/miraculous to contribute to the construction of an authorial identity (that of kings, gods, or narrators). To this extent, the volume approaches miracles and wonders as counter intuitive phenomena, beyond cognitive grasp, which challenge the authenticity of human experience and knowledge and push forward the frontiers of intellectual and aesthetic experience. Some of the articles of the volume examine miracles on the basis of bewilderment that could lead to new factual knowledge; the supernatural is here registered as something natural (although strange); the rest of the articles treat miracles as an endpoint, where human knowledge stops and the unknown divine begins (here the supernatural is confirmed). Thence, questions like whether the experience of a miracle or wonder as a counter intuitive phenomenon could be part of long-term memory, i.e. if miracles could be transformed into solid knowledge and what mental functions are encompassed in this process, are central in the discussion.

Author : John M. Duncan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004524033

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Rhetorical Adaptation in the Greek Historians, Josephus, and Acts vol.I by John M. Duncan Pdf

A detailed comparative analysis of speaker-audience interactions in Greek historiography, Josephus, and Acts that examines historians’ use of speeches as a means of instructing/persuading their readers and highlights Luke’s distinctive depiction of the apostles as adaptable yet frequently alienating orators.

Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108887427

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The Cambridge Companion to Alexander the Great by Daniel Ogden Pdf

Has any ancient figure captivated the imagination of people over the centuries so much as Alexander the Great? In less than a decade he created an empire stretching across much of the Near East as far as India, which led to Greek culture becoming dominant in much of this region for a millennium. Here, an international team of experts clearly explains the life and career of one of the most significant figures in world history. They introduce key themes of his campaign as well as describing aspects of his court and government and exploring the very different natures of his engagements with the various peoples he encountered and their responses to him. The reader is also introduced to the key sources, including the more important fragmentary historians, especially Ptolemy, Aristobulus and Clitarchus, with their different perspectives. The book closes by considering how Alexander's image was manipulated in antiquity itself.

Author : Joshua P. Nudell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472903870

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Accustomed to Obedience? by Joshua P. Nudell Pdf

Many histories of Ancient Greece center their stories on Athens, but what would that history look like if they didn’t? There is another way to tell this story, one that situates Greek history in terms of the relationships between smaller Greek cities and in contact with the wider Mediterranean. In this book, author Joshua P. Nudell offers a new history of the period from the Persian wars to wars that followed the death of Alexander the Great, from the perspective of Ionia. While recent scholarship has increasingly treated Greece through the lenses of regional, polis, and local interaction, there has not yet been a dedicated study of Classical Ionia. This book fills this clear gap in the literature while offering Ionia as a prism through which to better understand Classical Greece. This book offers a clear and accessible narrative of the period between the Persian Wars and the wars of the early Hellenistic period, two nominal liberations of the region. The volume complements existing histories of Classical Greece. Close inspection reveals that the Ionians were active partners in the imperial endeavor, even as imperial competition constrained local decision-making and exacerbated local and regional tensions. At the same time, the book offers interventions on critical issues related to Ionia such as the Athenian conquest of Samos, rhetoric about the freedom of the Greeks, the relationship between Ionian temple construction and economic activity, the status of the Panionion, Ionian poleis and their relationship with local communities beyond the circle of the dodecapolis, and the importance of historical memory to our understanding of ancient Greece. The result is a picture of an Aegean world that is more complex and less beholden narratives that give primacy to the imperial actors at the expense of local developments.