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almafu_9959245782502883
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1 online resource (x, 257 pages) :
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1-139-36585-1
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1-107-22771-2
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1-280-64742-6
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1-139-37840-6
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9786613633477
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1-139-03520-7
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1-139-37554-7
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1-139-37697-7
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1-139-37983-6
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1-139-37155-X
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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.
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Cover; TIME AND NARRATIVE IN ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Note on abbreviations; CHAPTER 1: The historian's plupast: Introductory remarks on its forms and functions; I CLASSIFYING THE HISTORIAN'S PLUPAST; II THE HISTORIAN'S PLUPAST WITHIN HISTORICAL SEMANTICS; III THE HISTORIAN'S PLUPAST AS METAHISTORY; IV SUMMARIES OF CHAPTERS; CHAPTER 2: Speaker's past and plupast: Herodotus in the light of elegy and lyric; I PLUPASTS AT PLATAEA; II PLUPASTS IN CONTENTION; III ESTABLISHING CREDIBILITY: HERODOTEAN AND LYRIC SPEAKERS
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IV (DIS)LOCATING SPEAKERS' PASTSCHAPTER 3: The mythic plupast in Herodotus; I TOUCHSTONE: THE RECENT/HISTORICAL PLUPAST; II TEGEANS AND ATHENIANS; III SOCLES ON PERIANDER; IV GELON AND SYAGRUS ON TROY; V PISISTRATUS ON HERACLES?; VI CONCLUSION: MYTH AND MEMORY IN THE HISTORIES; CHAPTER 4: The use and abuse of history in the Plataean debate (Thuc. 3.52-68); I ESTABLISHING A NEW GENRE; II THE PAST AS ARGUMENT; III THE SPEECHES AS METAHISTORY; IV INSCRIPTIONS AS METAHISTORY; V HOW TO READ THUCYDIDES; CHAPTER 5: The plupast in Xenophon's Hellenica; I THE FALL OF ATHENS IN 404 BCE
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II THE THEBANS' SPEECH AT ATHENS IN 395 BCEIII THE ATHENIANS' SPEECHES AT SPARTA IN 371 BCE; IV THE SPARTANS' SPEECHES AT SPARTA IN 369 BCE; V PELOPIDAS' SPEECH IN 367/6 BCE: PLUPAST AND METAHISTORY; CHAPTER 6: Magna mihi copia est memorandi: Modes of historiography in the speeches of Caesar and Cato (Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 51-4); I THE HISTORIOGRAPHIC MODE OF CAESAR'S SPEECH; II THE FRACTURED HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; III CATO'S PRESENT: A HISTORICAL DISCONTINUITY; IV CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 7: Negotiating the plupast: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Roman self-definition; I INTRODUCTION
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II THE PASTS OF THE CONTRIBUTORY PEOPLESIII CHRONOLOGY AND THE SEVERAL FOUNDATIONS OF ROME; IV THE PLUPAST AS A MODEL FOR INSTITUTIONS; V SPEECHES AND THE EXEMPLARY PLUPAST; VI CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 8: M. Manlius Capitolinus: The metaphorical plupast and metahistorical reflections; I MARCUS MANLIUS CAPITOLINUS - THE HISTORIAN; II CLIMBING HIGH, FALLING DEEP, WAGING WARS: THEMETAPHORICAL PLUPAST; III AMBIGUOUS EXEMPLA; IV IN RETROSPECT: REREADING THE PLUPAST; V POLYPHONY AND POSSIBLE HISTORIES
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CHAPTER 9: Repetita bellorum civilium memoria: The remembrance of civil war and its literature in Tacitus, Histories 1.50I DEMONSTRATION OF THE UTILITY AND APPLICABILITY OF LITERATURE; II TACITUS' PLACEMENT OF HIMSELF IN THE LITERARY TRADITION; III CORRECTION OF REPUBLICAN SENTIMENTALITY; CHAPTER 10: Mimesis and the (plu)pastin Plutarchs Lives; I GETTING IT RIGHT: PLUTARCH ON MIMESIS; II IMITATING THE PLUPAST; III THE TOXIC LOOT; CHAPTER 11: War stories: The uses of the plupast in Appian; I THE BROKEN MIRROR; II CAREFULLY TRIUMPHANT; III SCIPIO'S DEFENCE REVISITED; IV ENARGEIA IN ACTION
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V GREAT MEN BREAK BOUNDARIES
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ISBN 1-107-00740-2
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English
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History
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Ancient Studies
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