Pushing the boundaries of Historia / edited by Mary C. English and Lee M. Fratantuono.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

English, Mary C., editor.

Fratantuono, Lee, 1973- editor.

Series:

Routledge monographs in classical studies

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Classical.

Classical antiquities.

Classical philology.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

xii, 302 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"This collection of essays, written by philologists, historians, epigraphers, palaeographers, archaeologists, and art historians, brings together the best of old and new traditions of classical study, from senior emeritus faculty with established records of scholarly productivity, to the newest generation of classics and archaeology professors. The twenty-one essays included in this volume cover a wide range of subjects in Greek and Roman antiquity and its reception. While the topics may seem disparate and the authors' approaches and methodologies diverse, each paper offers something of a précis of the state of its subject at a transformative moment in the history of classical scholarship"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Different expressions of historia in the prose of Herodotus and Thucydides / Gregory Nagy

Tyrants' spectacles in Herodotus / Deborah Boedeker

Thinking with Sima Qian's Shiji about Herodotus' fragmented narrative of the story of Miltiades / Thomas R. Martin

Settling family feuds : Lysias 1 and Herodotus' Lydians / Nina C. Coppolino

East and West in the Histories of Herodotus and Tacitus / Timothy Joseph

Thucydides' use of Homer in his archaeology / Mary Ebbott

Models of gift-exchange and practices of hostage-giving and hostage-taking in classical Persian poetry / Olga M. Davidson

Michael Ventris, Sterling Dow, and the initial reception of the decipherment of Linear B / Stephen Tracy

Citizen scholarship in the Homer multitext project / Neel Smith

Othryadas : the development of a historical and literary exemplum / Alissa Vaillancourt and Andrew G. Scott

No peeking! Athena and Alcibiades / Joseph Falaky Nagy

A furious fury : Virgil's Camilla, Livy's Camillus, and the reconciliations of Juno / Lee M. Fratantuono

Ovid's autobiography (Tr. 4.10) : poetic identity and immortality in the poetry of exile / Matthew M. Mcgowan

Billy Collins as a modern-day Ovid : an Ovidian reading of Collins' Ballistics / Jill A. Coyle

Sound effects : aural aspects of Euripides' Bacchae / Katie Lamberto

Evander's love of gore and bloodshed in Aeneid 8 / James O'Hara

A disquiet follows my soul : civil war in Livy Book 1 / Mark J. B. Wright

Saint Pilate and the conversion of Tiberius / Paul Burke

Julius Caesar in the 1960s : Jerome Kilty's stage adaptation of Thornton Wilder's the Ides of March / Mary C. English

Edward Robinson's plaster Casts and the battle for the Museum of Fine Arts / Ellen Perry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pushing the boundaries of Historia

ISBN:

9781138046320

1138046329

OCLC:

1052904408