Readings In The Classical Historians
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Author |
: Michael Grant |
Publisher |
: Scribner |
Total Pages |
: 712 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X002242319 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Readings in the Classical Historians by : Michael Grant
A comprehensive anthology of the classical historians--from the early Greeks through the late Romans, right up to the beginnings of the Christian era.
Author |
: Anthony Kaldellis |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 195 |
Release |
: 2015-03-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317517849 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317517849 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians by : Anthony Kaldellis
The survival of ancient Greek historiography is largely due to its preservation by Byzantine copyists and scholars. This process entailed selection, adaptation, and commentary, which shaped the corpus of Greek historiography in its transmission. By investigating those choices, Kaldellis enables a better understanding of the reception and survival of Greek historical writing. Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians includes translations of texts written by Byzantines on specific ancient historians. Each translated text is accompanied by an introduction and notes to highlight the specific context and purpose of its composition. In order to present a rounded picture of the reception of Greek historiography in Byzantium, a wide range of genres have been considered, such as poems and epigrams, essays, personalized scholia, and commentaries. Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians is therefore an important resource for scholars and students of ancient history.
Author |
: Michael Maas |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 530 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780415473361 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0415473365 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Readings in Late Antiquity by : Michael Maas
This volume seeks to make accessible to students a multiplicity of texts which illuminate the history, culture, medicine, philosophy, religion and peoples of late antiquity.
Author |
: Mario Baumann |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 382 |
Release |
: 2022-01-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110764123 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110764121 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading History in the Roman Empire by : Mario Baumann
Although the relationship of Greco-Roman historians with their readerships has attracted much scholarly attention, classicists principally focus on individual historians, while there has been no collective work on the matter. The editors of this volume aspire to fill this gap and gather papers which offer an overall view of the Greco-Roman readership and of its interaction with ancient historians. The authors of this book endeavor to define the physiognomy of the audience of history in the Roman Era both by exploring the narrative arrangement of ancient historical prose and by using sources in which Greco-Roman intellectuals address the issue of the readership of history. Ancient historians shaped their accounts taking into consideration their readers’ tastes, and this is evident on many different levels, such as the way a historian fashions his authorial image, addresses his readers, or uses certain compositional strategies to elicit the readers’ affective and cognitive responses to his messages. The papers of this volume analyze these narrative aspects and contextualize them within their socio-political environment in order to reveal the ways ancient readerships interacted with and affected Greco-Roman historical prose.
Author |
: D. Brendan Nagle |
Publisher |
: OUP USA |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013-05-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 019997845X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199978458 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis Readings in Greek History by : D. Brendan Nagle
This book contains a comprehensive selection of historical documents for courses in Greek History and Civilization, and Western Civilization. It includes material dealing with all the major aspects of Greek historical experience: political, social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and technological.
Author |
: John Marincola |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0199233500 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199233502 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greek and Roman Historiography by : John Marincola
"Over the past thirty years the study of classical historiography has undergone great changes. While not abandoning traditional questions about sources and reliability, newer scholarship, influenced and informed by the current debates in the academy at large about the nature and purpose of all historiography, has sought to understand the ancient historians on their own terms and has more closely engaged with the ways in which the Greeks and Romans constructed their pasts, with the various roles that history played in these societies, with the relationship of history as a literary composition to other genres, and with the importance of the historian himself in giving form and meaning to his history. The essays in the present volume, six of which are translated into English for the first time, address these and other issues. Topics treated include the relationship of history and myth, the importance of oral tradition in the formation of both Greek andRoman historical traditions, the role of memory (both individual and societal) in shaping notions of the past and determining what is thought worthy of record, the influence of other genres such as poetry and oratory on historiography, and ancient notions of falsehood and historical truth. An introduction places the essays in the larger context of earlier and more recent trends in the study of Greek and Roman historiography"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.
Author |
: Leslie Chew |
Publisher |
: Walter Foster Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 2010-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610586061 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1610586069 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Daily Book of Classical Music by : Leslie Chew
Music lovers of all ages are drawn to the pure melodies of classical music. Now aficionados of this timeless genre can learn something about classical music every day of the year! Readers will find everything from brief biographies of their favorite composers to summaries of the most revered operas. Interesting facts about the world’s most celebrated songs and discussions of classical music–meets–pop culture make this book as fun as it is informative. Ten categories of discussion rotate throughout the year: Classical Music Periods, Compositional Forms, Great Composers, Celebrated Works, Basic Instruments, Famous Operas, Music Theory, Venues of the World, Museums & Festivals, and Pop Culture Medley.
Author |
: Ronald Mellor |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 618 |
Release |
: 2012-10-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136222610 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136222618 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Historians of Ancient Rome by : Ronald Mellor
The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume. After a general introduction on Roman historical writing, extensive passages from more than a dozen Greek and Roman historians and biographers trace the history of Rome over more than a thousand years: from the city’s foundation by Romulus in 753 B.C.E. (Livy) to Constantine’s edict of toleration for Christianity (313 C.E.) Selections include many of the high points of Rome’s climb to world domination: the defeat of Hannibal; the conquest of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean; the defeat of the Catilinarian conspirators; Caesar’s conquest of Gaul; Antony and Cleopatra; the establishment of the Empire by Caesar Augustus; and the "Roman Peace" under Hadrian and long excepts from Tacitus record the horrors of the reigns of Tiberius and Nero. The book is intended both for undergraduate courses in Roman history and for the general reader interested in approaching the Romans through the original historical sources. Hence, excerpts of Polybius, Livy, and Tacitus are extensive enough to be read with pleasure as an exciting narrative. Now in its third edition, changes to this thoroughly revised volume include a new timeline, translations of several key inscriptions such as the Twelve Tables, and additional readings. This is a book which no student of Roman history should be without.
Author |
: Elizabeth Irwin |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2007-08-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139466745 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139466747 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading Herodotus by : Elizabeth Irwin
Reading Herodotus is a 2007 text which represented a departure in Herodotean scholarship: it was the first multi-authored collection of scholarly essays to focus on a single book of Herodotus' Histories. Each chapter studies a separate logos in Book 5 and pursues two closely related lines of inquiry: first, to propose an individual thesis about the political, historical, and cultural significance of the subjects that Herodotus treats in Book 5, and second, to analyze the connections and continuities between its logos and the overarching structure of Herodotus' narrative. This collection of twelve essays by internationally renowned scholars represents an important contribution to scholarship on Herodotus and will serve as an essential research tool for all those interested in Book 5 of the Histories, the interpretation of Herodotean narrative, and the historiography of the Ionian Revolt.
Author |
: Rhiannon Ash |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 489 |
Release |
: 2012-06-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199285099 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199285098 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oxford Readings in Tacitus by : Rhiannon Ash
This collection is designed to reflect the main trends in scholarship on the Roman historian of the early empire, Tacitus, particularly as they have developed over the last century. Covering the whole of Tacitus' works, it begins with a comprehensive introduction which sets the selected scholarship and Roman author in context.