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A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography.
This two-volume Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of ancient historiography in the past few decades.Comprises a series of cutting edge articles written by recognised scholarsPresents broad, chronological treatmen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicester :
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.,
2010.
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| Colección: | Blackwell companions to the ancient world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Contents Page; Endorsements Page; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contributors Page; Preface; Acknowledgments; Ancient Authors: Abbreviations; Reference Works: Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Approaching Classical Historiography; 2 Evolving Approaches; 3 Developmental Models; Part I: Contexts; Chapter 1: The Place of History in the Ancient World; Chapter 2: The Origin of Greek Historiography; Chapter 3: History and Historia: Inquiry in the Greek Historians; Chapter 4: Documents and the Greek Historians; Chapter 5: The Prehistory of Roman Historiography.
- Chapter 6: Myth and HistoriographyChapter 7: The Construction of Meaning in the First Three Historians; Chapter 8: Characterization in Ancient Historiography; Chapter 9: Speeches in Classical Historiography; Chapter 10: Readers and Reception: A Text Case; Part II: Surveys; Chapter 11: The Development of the War Monograph; Chapter 12: Continuous Histories (Hellenica); Chapter 13: Universal History from Ephorus to Diodorus; Chapter 14: Local History and Atthidography; Chapter 15: Western Greek Historiography; Chapter 16: Greek Historians of Persia.
- Chapter 17: The Historians of Alexander the GreatChapter 18: Greek Historians of the Near East: Clio's "Other" Sons; Chapter 19: The Jewish Appropriation of Hellenistic Historiography; Chapter 20: The Greek Historians of Rome; Chapter 21: The Early Roman Tradition; Chapter 22: Memoir and Autobiography in Republican Rome; Chapter 23: Roman Historiography in the Late Republic; Chapter 24: The Emperor and his Historians; Chapter 25: The Epitomizing Tradition in Late Antiquity; Part III: Readings; Chapter 26: To Each His Own: Simonides and Herodotus on Thermopylae.
- Chapter 27: Rhampsinitos and the Clever Thief (Herodotus 2.121)Chapter 28: The Enigma of Discourse: A View of Thucydides; Chapter 29: Contest (Agon) in Thucydides; Chapter 30: Narrative Manner and Xenophon's More Routine Hellenica; Chapter 31: Fortune (tyche) in Polybius; Chapter 32: Polybius and Aetolia: A Historiographical Approach; Chapter 33: Diodorus Siculus on the Third Sacred War; Chapter 34: Caesar's Account of the Battle of Massilia (BC 1.34- 2.22): Some Historiographical and Narratological Approaches? S; Chapter 35: The Politics of Sallustian Style.
- Chapter 36: The Translation of CatilineChapter 37: Claudius Quadrigarius and Livy's Second Pentad; Chapter 38: Fog on the Mountain: Philip and Mt. Haemus in Livy 40.21- 22; Chapter 39: Clothing Cincinnatus: Dionysius of Halicarnassus; Chapter 40: The Imperial Republic of Velleius Paterculus; Chapter 41: Josephus and the Cannibalism of Mary (BJ 6.199- 219); Chapter 42: Quintus Curtius Rufus on the "Good King": The Dioxippus Episode in Book 9.7.16- 26; Chapter 43: Tacitus and the Battle of Mons Graupius: A Historiographical Route Map?