Format:
1 Online-Ressource (329 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
ISBN:
3110495260
Series Statement:
Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes v.41
Content:
This book is a collective volume on classical historiography. Approaching the ancient Greek and Roman historical texts from a literary point of view, the essays of the book elaborate on the effect of the compositional devices – in terms of style and narrative – of the ancient historians on the representation of the historical reality. Vasileios Liotsakis, Bogaziçi University of Istanbul, Turkey; Scott Farrington, Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA.
Content:
Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I. Fifth-Century Greek Historiography -- Herodotus and Greek Lyric Poetry -- Cambyses and the Sacred Bull (Hdt. 3.27- 29 and 3.64): History and Legend -- Narrative Defects in Thucydides and the Development of Ancient Greek Historiography -- Thucydides and Poetry. Ancient Remarks on the Vocabulary and Structure of Thucydides' History -- Thucydides' Methodenkapitel in the Light of the Ancient Evidence
Content:
Alcibiades, the Ancestors, Liturgies, and the Etiquette of Addressing the Athenian Assembly -- II. Greek Narrators of the Past Under Rome -- The Tragic Phylarchus -- "No One Can Look at Them Without Feeling Pity": συμπάθεια and the Reader in Diodorus' Bibliotheke -- Dream Narratives in Plutarch's Lives: The Place of Fiction in Biography -- III. Roman Historiography
Content:
Encouraging Troops, Persuading Narratees: Pre-Battle Exhortations in Caesar's Bellum Gallicum as a Narrative Device -- Carthago Deleta: Alternate Realities and Meta-History in Appian's Libyca -- Histories Repeated? The Mutinies in Annals 1 and Tacitean Self-Allusion -- Suetonius' Construction of His Historiographical auctoritas -- Contributors -- Index nominum et rerum -- Index locorum
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110496054
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110493290
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110495263
Additional Edition:
Print version Liotsakis, Vasileios The Art of History : Literary Perspectives on Greek and Roman Historiography Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter,c2016 ISBN 9783110495263
Language:
English
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