Greek and Roman historiography
Over the past thirty years the study of classical historiography has undergone great changes. While not abandoning traditional questions about sources and reliability, newer scholarship, influenced and informed by the current debates in the academy at large about the nature and purpose of all histor...
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Format : | Book |
Language : | anglais |
Title statement : | Greek and Roman historiography / edited by John Marincola |
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Oxford, New York :
Oxford University Press
, 2011 |
Physical Description : | 1 vol. (X-498 p.) |
Series : | Oxford readings in classical studies |
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- I. Constructing the past : myth, memory, and history. Thucydides is not a colleague / Nicole Loraux. Myth, history, politics
- ancient and modern / Hans-Joachim Gehrke. Genealogy and the genealogists / Rosalind Thomas. Some aspects of source theory in Greek historiography / Guido Schepens. The tradition on Early Rome and oral history / Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg. Memoria and historiography in Rome / Dieter Timpe. Etruscan historiography in Rome / T. J. Cornell
- II. Rhetoric, truth, and falsehood. Cicero and historiography / P.A. Brunt. Cicero and the writing of history / A.J. Woodman. Ancient views on the causes of bias in historical writing / T. J. Luce. Lying historians : seven types of mendacity / T. J. Wiseman. True history and false history in Classical Antiquity / Emilio Gabba
- III. History and poetry. The historical 'cycle' / Luciano Canfora. History and tragedy / F.W. Walbank. Poetry and historiography : a study in the use of sources / Hermann Funke