Ancient Historiography And Its Contexts
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Author |
: Christina S. Kraus |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2010-05-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199558681 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019955868X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts by : Christina S. Kraus
This collection of studies on ancient poetry and historiography pays tribute to the distinguished classicist Tony Woodman. It focuses on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of the literature on illuminating the historical Roman context, and the historical context to illuminate the literature.
Author |
: Christina Shuttleworth Kraus |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 449 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0191720887 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780191720888 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts: Tacitus reviewed by : Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
This collection of studies on ancient poetry and historiography pays tribute to the distinguished classicist Tony Woodman. It focuses on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of the literature on illuminating the historical Roman context, and the historical context to illuminate the literature.
Author |
: Timothy Howe |
Publisher |
: Oxbow Books |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2016-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781785703003 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1785703005 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Historiography on War and Empire by : Timothy Howe
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 |
: Cyril Courrier |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 330 |
Release |
: 2021-09-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000450026 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000450023 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient History from Below by : Cyril Courrier
If ancient history is particularly susceptible to a top-down approach, due to the nature of our evidence and its traditional exploitation by modern scholars, another ancient history—‘from below’—is actually possible. This volume examines the possibilities and challenges involved in writing it. Despite undeniable advances in recent decades, ‘our slowness to reconstruct plausible visions of almost any aspect of society beyond the top-most strata of wealth, power or status’ (as Nicholas Purcell has put it) remains a persistent feature of the field. Therefore, this book concerns a historical field and social groups that are still today neglected by modern scholarship. However, writing ancient history ‘from below’ means much more than taking into account the anonymous masses, the subaltern classes and the non-elites. Our task is also, in the felicitous expression coined by Walter Benjamin, ‘to brush history against the grain,’ to rescue the viewpoint of the subordinated, the traditions of the oppressed. In other words, we should understand the bulk of ancient populations in light of their own experience and their own reactions to that experience. But, how do we do such a history? What sources can we use? What methods and approaches can we employ? What concepts are required to this endeavour? The contributions mainly engage with questions of theory and methodology, but they also constitute inspiring case studies in their own right, ranging from classical Greece to the late antique world. This book is aimed not only at readers working on classical Greece, republican and imperial Rome and late antiquity but at anyone interested in ‘bottom-up’ history and social and population history in general. Although the book is primarily intended for scholars, it will also appeal to graduate and undergraduate students of history, archaeology and classical studies.
Author |
: Christina S. Kraus |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 802 |
Release |
: 2010-05-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191614095 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191614092 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts by : Christina S. Kraus
This is a collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, concentrating especially on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of considering the literature to illuminate the historical Roman context and the historical context to illuminate the literature. It takes the form of a tribute to Tony Woodman, Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, for whom twenty-one scholars have contributed essays reflecting the interests and approaches that have typified Woodman's own work. The authors that he has continuously illuminated - especially Velleius, Horace, Virgil, Sallust, and Tacitus - figure particularly prominently.
Author |
: Andreas Mehl |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2014-01-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781118785133 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1118785134 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Roman Historiography by : Andreas Mehl
Roman Historiography: An Introduction to its Basic Aspects and Development presents a comprehensive introduction to the development of Roman historical writings in both Greek and Latin, from the early annalists to Orosius and Procopius of Byzantium. Provides an accessible survey of every historical writer of significance in the Roman world Traces the growth of Christian historiography under the influence of its pagan adversaries Offers valuable insight into current scholarly trends on Roman historiography Includes a user-friendly bibliography, catalog of authors and editions, and index Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title
Author |
: Alexandra Lianeri |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 371 |
Release |
: 2011-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139500845 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139500848 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Western Time of Ancient History by : Alexandra Lianeri
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 |
: John Marincola |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 1997-07-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521480191 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521480192 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography by : John Marincola
This book is a study of the various claims to authority made by the ancient Greek and Roman historians throughout their histories and is the first to examine all aspects of the historian's self-presentation. It shows how each historian claimed veracity by imitating, modifying, and manipulating the traditions established by his predecessors. Beginning with a discussion of the tension between individuality and imitation, it then categorises and analyses the recurring style used to establish the historian's authority: how he came to write history; the qualifications he brought to the task; the inquiries and efforts he made in his research; and his claims to possess a reliable character. By detailing how each historian used the tradition to claim and maintain his own authority, the book contributes to a better understanding of the complex nature of ancient historiography.
Author |
: Luke Pitcher |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2010-01-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857718037 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857718037 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing Ancient History by : Luke Pitcher
'History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon', said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of history, especially ancient history, is a practice that often prompts more discord than assent. In his new textbook, Luke Pitcher aims to overcome the hostility which exists between two rival camps in their study of classical historiography. The first camp looks at the classical historians with an eye to what data they can provide about the ancient world. The second camp examines the ancient writers as literary texts in their own right, employing the tools of literary criticism and engaging with such matters as narrative artistry.Attempting to fuse these two - mutually suspicious - approaches, Luke Pitcher's attractive introduction offers undergraduate students of classics the first comprehensive introduction to historiography in antiquity on the market. It unites the nitty-gritty of the historian's trade (the finding and managing of data) to an awareness of the importance of style, form, allusion and composition. The book also seeks to do justice to individual classical historians, and discusses such important figures as Livy, Tacitus, Herodotus, Cicero, Plutarch and Lucian. A comprehensive bibliography and glossary are included. "Writing Ancient History" at last does full justice to the mechanics of history-writing in the ancient world.
Author |
: John Marincola |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 697 |
Release |
: 2010-12-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781444393828 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1444393820 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography by : John Marincola
This two-volume Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of ancient historiography in the past few decades. Comprises a series of cutting edge articles written by recognised scholars Presents broad, chronological treatments of important issues in the writing of history and antiquity These are complemented by chapters on individual genres and sub-genres from the fifth century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E. Provides a series of interpretative readings on the individual historians Contains essays on the neighbouring genres of tragedy, biography, and epic, among others, and their relationship to history