Greek notions of the past in the archaic and classical eras : history without historians / edited by John Marincola, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marincola, John, Author.

Contributor:

Marincola, John.

Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd.

Maciver, Calum Alasdair

Series:

Edinburgh Leventis Studies

Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 6

Edinburgh Leventis Studies : ELS

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--Greece--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Collective memory.

Greece--Historiography.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A wide examination of the ways in which the Greeks constructed, de-constructed, engaged with and relied on their pasts. This volume in The Edinburgh Leventis Studies series collects the papers presented at the sixth A. G. Leventis conference organised under the auspices of the Department of Classics at the University of Edinburgh. As with earlier volumes, it engages with new research and new approaches to the Greek past, and brings the fruits of that research to a wider audience. Although Greek historians were fundamental in the enterprise of preserving the memory of great deeds in antiquity,

Contents:

COVER; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ILLUSTRATIONS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; 1 INTRODUCTION: A PAST WITHOUT HISTORIANS; 2 HOMER AND HEROIC HISTORY; 3 HESIOD ON HUMAN HISTORY; 4 HELEN AND 'I' IN EARLY GREEK LYRIC; 5 STESICHORUS AND IBYCUS: PLAIN TALES FROM THE WESTERN FRONT; 6 PINDAR AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PAST; 7 DEBATING THE PAST IN EURIPIDES 'TROADES AND ORESTES AND IN SOPHOCLES' ELECTRA; 8 EURIPIDEAN EXPLAINERS; 9 OLD COMEDY AND POPULAR HISTORY; 10 ATTIC HEROES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ATHENIAN PAST IN THE FIFTH CENTURY

11 FAMILY TIME: TEMPORALITY, GENDER AND MATERIALITY IN ANCIENT GREECE12 COMMON KNOWLEDGE AND THE CONTESTATION OF HISTORY IN SOME FOURTH-CENTURY ATHENIAN TRIALS; 13 PLATO AND THE STABILITY OF HISTORY; 14 INSCRIBING THE PAST IN FOURTH-CENTURY ATHENS; 15 THE POLITICS OF THE PAST: REMEMBERING REVOLUTION AT ATHENS; 16 'REMEMBERING THE ANCIENT WAY OF LIFE': PRIMITIVISM IN GREEK SACRIFICIAL RITUAL; 17 THE GREAT KINGS OF THE FOURTHCENTURY AND THE GREEK MEMORY OF THE PERSIAN PAST; 18 COMMENTARY; INDEX LOCORUM; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781299105539

129910553X

9780748643974

0748643974

OCLC:

828793225