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Literary texts and the Greek historian / Christopher Pelling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pelling, C. B. R.
- Series:
- Approaching the ancient world.
- Approaching the ancient world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greek literature--History and criticism.
- Greek literature.
- Literature and history--Greece--History.
- Literature and history.
- History, Ancient--Historiography.
- History, Ancient.
- Historiography--Greece--History.
- Historiography.
- Greece--Historiography.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- x, 338 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Literary Texts and the Greek Historian provides a comprehensive and well documented survey of the ways in which non-historical texts, as well as historical ones, can be used to construct Greek history.
- Contents:
- 1. A culture of rhetoric
- 2. Rhetoric and history (415 BC)
- 3. How far would they go? Plutarch on Nicias and Alcibiades
- 4. Rhetoric and history II : Platnea (431-27 BC)
- 5. Explaining the war
- 6. Thucydides' speeches
- 7. 'You cannot be serious' : approaching Aristophanes
- 8. Aristophanes' Acharnians (425 BC)
- 9. Tragedy and ideology
- 10. Lysistrata and others : constructing gender
- 11. Conclusions : texts, audiences, truth.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [306]-324) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-90639-0
- 1-134-90640-4
- 0-203-01027-2
- 1-280-19497-9
- 0-415-07351-0
- 9780203010273
- OCLC:
- 50496752
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