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Author : Jonas Grethlein,Christopher B. Krebs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Historiography
ISBN : 1139378406
Offers case studies of the past embedded in the past as a window into the ancient historians' workshop.
Author : Jonas Grethlein,Christopher B. Krebs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107007406
Offers case studies of the past embedded in the past as a window into the ancient historians' workshop.
Author : Jonas Grethlein,Christopher B. Krebs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107378216
Historians often refer to past events which took place prior to their narrative's proper past - that is, they refer to a 'plupast'. This past embedded in the past can be evoked by characters as well as by the historian in his own voice. It can bring into play other texts, but can also draw on lieux de mémoire or on material objects. The articles assembled in this volume explore the manifold forms of the plupast in Greek and Roman historians from Herodotus to Appian. The authors demonstrate that the plupast is a powerful tool for the creation of historical meaning. Moreover, the acts of memory embedded in the historical narrative parallel to some degree the historian's activity of recording the past. The plupast thereby allows Greek and Roman historians to reflect on how (not) to write history and gains metahistorical significance. In shedding new light on the temporal complexity and the subtle forms of self-conscious reflection in the works of ancient historians, Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography significantly enhances our understanding of their narrative art.
Author : Jonas Grethlein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107040281
This book explores the tension in ancient historiography between teleological design and narrating the past as it was experienced by historical characters.
Author : Jonas Grethlein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1107423007
The past is narrated in retrospect. Historians can either capitalize on the benefit of hindsight and give their narratives a strongly teleological design or they may try to render the past as it was experienced by historical agents and contemporaries. This book explores the fundamental tension between experience and teleology in major works of Greek and Roman historiography, biography and autobiography. The combination of theoretical reflections with close readings yields a new, often surprising assessment of the history of ancient historiography as well as a deeper understanding of such authors as Thucydides, Tacitus and Augustine. While much recent work has focused on how ancient historians use emplotment to generate historical meaning, Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography offers a new approach to narrative form as a mode of coming to grips with time.
Author : Jonas Grethlein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107435445
The past is narrated in retrospect. Historians can either capitalize on the benefit of hindsight and give their narratives a strongly teleological design or they may try to render the past as it was experienced by historical agents and contemporaries. This book explores the fundamental tension between experience and teleology in major works of Greek and Roman historiography, biography and autobiography. The combination of theoretical reflections with close readings yields a new, often surprising assessment of the history of ancient historiography as well as a deeper understanding of such authors as Thucydides, Tacitus and Augustine. While much recent work has focused on how ancient historians use emplotment to generate historical meaning, Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography offers a new approach to narrative form as a mode of coming to grips with time.
Author : Irene J.F. de Jong,René Nünlist
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047422938
This is the second volume of a new narratological history of Ancient Greek lietrature, which deals with aspects of time: the order in which events are narrated, the amount of time devoted to the naration, and the number of times they are presented.
Author : Vasileios Liotsakis,Scott Farrington
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110496055
A significant trend in the study of Greek and Roman historiographers is to accept that their works are to a degree both science and fiction. As scholarly interest broadens, in addition to evaluating ancient historians on the basis of the reliability of the information they record, and verifying the narratives against various elements of the material (inscriptions, excavations, numismatics), new studies are beginning to elaborate on the stylistic and narrative qualities of the texts themselves. The present volume offers a fine collection of essays that on the whole emphasize the literary dimensions of the ancient Greek and Roman historians. Offering narratological, linguistic, and theoretical approaches to historiography, the contributors of the book elaborate on the intersections between historiography and other literary genres, the literary manipulation of military events and the criteria of selectivity, the reception of ancient historical texts in other genres, time and space in historical narrative, and plenty of other relevant topics. The shared belief of the authors is that there is a close interrelation between the literary features and the scientific value of ancient Greek and Roman historiography.
Author : Katharine Mawford,Eleni Ntanou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110728798
Although the recent ‘memory boom’ has led to increasing interdisciplinary interest, there is a significant gap relating to the examination of this topic in Classics. In particular, there is need for a systematic exploration of ancient memory and its use as a critical and methodological tool for delving into ancient literature. The present volume provides just such an approach, theorising the use and role of memory in Graeco-Roman thought and literature, and building on the background of memory studies. The volume’s contributors apply theoretical models such as memoryscapes, civic and cultural memory, and memory loss to a range of authors, from Homeric epic to Senecan drama, and from historiography to Cicero’s recollections of performances. The chapters are divided into four sections according to the main perspective taken. These are: 1) the Mechanics of Memory, 2) Collective memory, 3) Female Memory, and 4) Oblivion. This modern approach to ancient memory will be useful for scholars working across the range of Greek and Roman literature, as well as for students, and a broader interdisciplinary audience interested in the intersection of memory studies and Classics.
Author : Alexandra Lianeri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139500845
This book examines the conceptual and temporal frames through which modern Western historiography has linked itself to classical antiquity. In doing so, it articulates a genealogical problematic of what history is and a more strictly focused reappraisal of Greek and Roman historical thought. Ancient ideas of history have played a key role in modern debates about history writing, from Kant through Hegel to Nietzsche and Heidegger, and from Friedrich Creuzer through George Grote and Theodor Mommsen to Momigliano and Moses Finley; yet scholarship has paid little attention to the theoretical implications of the reception of these ideas. The essays in this collection cover a wide range of relevant topics and approaches and boast distinguished authors from across Europe in the fields of classics, ancient and modern history and the theory of historiography.
Author : Aaron Turner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110627305
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 : Neville Morley
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0801486335
How do ancient historians pursue their craft? From the evidence of coins, pottery shards, remains of buildings, works of art, and, above all, literary texts--all of which have survived more or less accidentally from antiquity--they fashion works of history. But how exactly do they go about reconstructing and representing the past? How should history be written? These and related questions are the subject of Neville Morley's engaging introduction to the theory and philosophy of history. Intended for students and teachers not only of ancient history but of historiography, the philosophy of history, and classics, his book addresses the implications of debates over methodological and theoretical issues for the practice of ancient history. At the present time, Morley says, students of ancient history are left to come to their own understanding of the field through a process of trial and error. In his view, too many professors regard "questions of theory and methodology... as pointless distractions from the business of actually doing history. Worse, [these questions] may even be perceived as a threat to the subject." Asserting that more attention must be given to fundamental matters, Morley considers such topics as the nature of historical narrative, style in historical writing, the use and abuse of sources, and the reasons for studying history.
Author : Alex C. Purves
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139487986
In this wide-ranging survey of ancient Greek narrative from archaic epic to classical prose, Alex Purves shows how stories unfold in space as well as in time. She traces a shift in authorial perspective, from a godlike overview to the more focused outlook of human beings caught up in a developing plot, inspired by advances in cartography, travel, and geometry. Her analysis of the temporal and spatial dimensions of ancient narrative leads to new interpretations of important texts by Homer, Herodotus, and Xenophon, among others, showing previously unnoticed connections between epic and prose. Drawing on the methods of classical philology, narrative theory, and cultural geography, Purves recovers a poetics of spatial representation that lies at the core of the Greeks' conception of their plots.
Author : John M. Duncan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004524033
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 : John M. Duncan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004524057
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.
