Between Thucydides and Polybius : the golden age of Greek historiography / edited by Giovanni Parmeggiani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parmeggiani, Giovanni, editor.

Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C.)

Series:

Hellenic studies ; 64.

Hellenic studies ; 64

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--Historiography.

Greece.

Historiography.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages).

Distribution:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by Harvard University Press, [date of distribution not identified]

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Historians like Ephorus, Theopompus, or Aristotle's great-nephew Callisthenes, to say nothing of Xenophon, counted among the most acclaimed in antiquity-but their works have nor survived, with the exception of Xenophon's, and they are accessible to the modern reader only in the form of fragments, usually quoted by later authors. This collections of essays by an international team of scholars focuses on the contribution of these and other fourth-century authors to the development of Green historiography in terms of form, scope, and methods. The book sheds light on the interface between historiography and rhetoric, while undermining the claim that historians after Thucydides allowed rhetoric to prevail over research in their reconstructions of the past. Topics discussed in the essays include the use of documents and inscriptions by fourth-century historians, the emergence of the individual as a subject of history, ethnography, and the role of the Persian Empire in the cultural world of the fourth century BCE. Overall, the book offers a reassessment of a crucial phase in Greek historiography which has long lain in the shadow of Thucydided and Polybius. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Giovanni Parmeggiani

Looking for the invisible / Riccardo Vattuone

Rethinking Isocrates and historiography / John Marincola

At the boundary of historiography / John Marincola

The use of documents in Xenophon's Hellenica / Cinzia Bearzot

The causes of the Peloponnesian War / Giovanni Parmeggiani

Ephorus in context / Nino Luraghi

Ephorus, Polybius, and [symbol] / John Tully

Greek monographs on the Persian world / Dominique Lenfant

The sick man of Asia? / Christopher Tuplin

Local history, Polis history, and the politics of place / Rosalind Thomas

The tools of memory / Sarah Ferrario

Aristotle and history / Lucio Bertelli.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Between Thucydides and Polybius

OCLC:

943342531