Hans-Joachim Gehrke

Greeks and Their Histories (eBook, PDF)

Myth, History, and Society
Übersetzer: Geuss, Raymond

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Argues that Greek communities used their histories to help shape political and social realities, with a lasting impact on historiography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009022118
• Artikelnr.: 70914603

Autorenporträt

HANS-JOACHIM GEHRKE is Professor emeritus of Ancient History at the University of Freiburg (Breisgau). He was Professor and Visiting Scholar at several German and European Universities and President of the German Archaeological Institute. He is the editor of Making Civilisations (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The locus of intentional history: reference-group - producers - media
2. Greek myths as a history of the Greeks: motifs - forms - structures
3. Greek historiography between past and present
4. Greek historiography between fiction and fact
Concluding perspectives.