The Hellenica Oxyrhynchia and historiography : new research perspectives / by Egidia Occhipinti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Occhipinti, Egidia, author.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 395.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature

Mnemosyne supplements : monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature ; volume 395

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hellenica Oxyrhynchia.

Diodorus, Siculus. Bibliotheca historica.

Diodorus.

Bibliotheca historica (Diodorus, Siculus).

History, Ancient--Research.

History, Ancient.

History.

Historiography.

Greece--History--To 146 B.C--Historiography.

Greece.

Greece--History--Spartan and Theban Supremacies, 404-362 B.C--Historiography.

History, Ancient--Historiography.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 303 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Summary:

"This book involves a new historiographical study of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia that defines its relationship with fifth- and fourth-century historical works as well as its role as a source of Diodorus' Bibliotheke. The traditional and common approach taken by those who studied the HO is primarily historical: scholars have focused on particular, often isolated, topics such as the question of the authorship, the historical perspective of the HO against other Hellenica from the 4th century BC. This book is unconventional in that it offers a study of the HO and fifth- and fourth-century historical works supported by papyrological enquiries and literary strategies, such as intertextuality and narratology, which will undoubtedly contribute to the progress of research in ancient historiography"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The HO in the view of modern scholars

Part 1

The work and the reader

Spartan motivations : the HO and Xenophon

Diodorus, the HO and Xenophon : a reassessment

Part 2

The HO and Athenian Polypragmosyne

Terra Marique

Historiography and hegemony

Historical causation

"Moralism" in historiography

Appendix 1: A new supplement for lines 31-32 of the Theramenes Papyrus (P. Mich. 5982)

Appendix 2: History, oratory and their audiences

Appendix 3: Diodorus and Rome

Appendix 4: Translations

Index of names

Thematic index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Occhipinti, Egidia, author. Hellenica Oxyrhynchia and historiography.

ISBN:

9789004325715

9004325719

OCLC:

950430802