Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras : : History Without Historians / / Calum Maciver, John Marincola, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Marincola, John,; Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd,; Maciver, Calum,
• MitwirkendeR: Boedeker, Deborah,; Bowie, Ewen,; Currie, Bruno,; Foxhall, Lin,; Goldhill, Simon,; Grethlein, Jonas,; Henderson, Jeffrey,; Hesk, Jon,; Kearns, Emily,; Lambert, S. D.,; Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd,; Marincola, John,; Morgan, Kathryn A.,; Pavlou, Maria,; Pelling, Christopher,; Romano, Allen,; Saïd, Suzanne,; Scodel, Ruth,; Shapiro, H. A.,; Shear, Julia L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Leventis Studies : ELS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 29 B/W illustrations

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, they were not alone in their interest in the past. The Greeks themselves, quite apart from their historians and in a variety of non-historiographical media, were constantly creating pasts for themselves that answered to the needs - political, social, moral and even religious - of their society. In this volume eighteen scholars discuss the variety of ways in which the Greeks constructed de-constructed, engaged with, alluded to, and relied on their pasts whether it was in the poetry of Homer, in the victory odes of Pindar, in tragedy and comedy on the Athenian stage, in their pictorial art, in their political assemblies, or in their religious practices. What emerges is a comprehensive overview of the importance of and presence of the past at every level of Greek society.In the final chapter the three discussants present at the conference (Simon Goldhill, Christopher Pelling and Suzanne Saïd) survey the contributions to the volume, summarise its overall contributions as well as indicate new directions that further scholarship might follow.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 GREECE -- 12 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 FOURTHCENTURY 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 FOURTH CENTURY AND THE GREEK MEMORY OF THE PERSIAN PAST -- 18 COMMENTARY -- INDEX LOCORUM -- INDEX