The Art of History : : Literary Perspectives on Greek and Roman Historiography /

The Art of History : : Literary Perspectives on Greek and Roman Historiography / / ed. by Vasileios Liotsakis, Scott T. Farrington.

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A significant trend in the study of Greek and Roman historiographers is to accept that their works are to a degree both science and fiction. As scholarly interest broadens, in addition to evaluating ancient historians on the basis of the reliability of the information they record, and verifying the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Adema, Suzanne,
Baumann, Mario,
Champion, Craige B.,
Donelli, Giulia,
Duchêne, Pauline,
Farrington, Scott,
Feddern, Stefan,
Fournel, Eugénie,
Grossi, Vera Mariantonia,
Harris, Edward M.,
Konstantakos, Ioannis M.,
Liotsakis, Vasileios,
Low, Katie,
Waddell, Philip,
HerausgeberIn:
Farrington, Scott T.,
Liotsakis, Vasileios,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 41
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 321 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • I. Fifth-Century Greek Historiography
  • Herodotus and Greek Lyric Poetry
  • Cambyses and the Sacred Bull (Hdt. 3.27– 29 and 3.64): History and Legend
  • Narrative Defects in Thucydides and the Development of Ancient Greek Historiography
  • Thucydides and Poetry. Ancient Remarks on the Vocabulary and Structure of Thucydides’ History
  • Thucydides’ Methodenkapitel in the Light of the Ancient Evidence
  • Alcibiades, the Ancestors, Liturgies, and the Etiquette of Addressing the Athenian Assembly
  • II. Greek Narrators of the Past Under Rome
  • The Tragic Phylarchus
  • “No One Can Look at Them Without Feeling Pity”: συμπάθεια and the Reader in Diodorus’ Bibliotheke
  • Dream Narratives in Plutarch’s Lives: The Place of Fiction in Biography
  • III. Roman Historiography
  • Encouraging Troops, Persuading Narratees: Pre-Battle Exhortations in Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum as a Narrative Device
  • Carthago Deleta: Alternate Realities and Meta-History in Appian’s Libyca
  • Histories Repeated? The Mutinies in Annals 1 and Tacitean Self-Allusion
  • Suetonius’ Construction of His Historiographical auctoritas
  • Contributors
  • Index nominum et rerum
  • Index locorum

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