Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography

Herausgeber: Grethlein, Jonas; Krebs, Christopher B.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers case studies of the past embedded in the past as a window into the ancient historians' workshop.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9781107007406
• ISBN-10: 1107007402
• Artikelnr.: 35987065

Inhaltsangabe

1. The historian's plupast: introductory remarks on its forms and functions
Jonas Grethlein and Christopher B. Krebs; 2. Speaker's past and plupast:
Herodotus in the light of elegy and lyric Deborah Boedeker; 3. The mythic
plupast in Herodotus Emily Baragwanath; 4. The use and abuse of history in
the Plataean debate (Thuc. 3.52-68) Jonas Grethlein; 5. The plupast in
Xenophon's Hellenica Tim Rood; 6. Magna mihi copia est memorandi: modes of
historiography in the speeches of Caesar and Cato (Sallust, Bellum
Catilinae 51-4) Andrew Feldherr; 7. Negotiating the plupast: Dionysius of
Halicarnassus and Roman self-definition Clemence Schultze; 8. M. Manlius
Capitolinus: the metaphorical plupast and metahistorical reflections
Christopher B. Krebs; 9. Repetita bellorum ciuilium memoria: the
remembrance of civil war and its literature in Tacitus, Histories 1.50
Timothy Joseph; 10. Mimesis and the (plu)past in Plutarch's Lives Alexei
Zadorojnyi; 11. War stories: the uses of the plupast in Appian Luke
Pitcher.