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This volume provides an accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date survey of the ancient Greek genre of historical writing from its origins before Herodotus to the Greek historians of the Roman imperial era, seven centuries later. Focuses on the themes of power and human nature, causation, divine jus...
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| Colección: | Blackwell introductions to the classical world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 504 | |a BibliographyChapter 7 Polybius on the Supremacy of a Balanced State; Life and Times; Readership, Structure, and Character of the Work; Themes and Significant Passages; Conclusions; Bibliography; Chapter 8 Greek Historians in the Roman Era; Greek Literature in a Roman Context; Fabius Pictor; Posidonius; Diodorus Siculus; Greek Historians of the Imperial Period; Dionysius of Halicarnassus; The Empire and the Biographic Turn; Josephus; Appian; Arrian; Dio Cassius; Herodian; Late Ancient Legacy; Conclusions; Bibliography; Chapter 9 Concluding Observations on Greek Historical Writing. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Origins and Early Forms of Greek Historiography; Prologue; Choosing and Using History; Oral Culture and Archaic Poetry; Out of Homer or Not?; The Ionian Connection; History Prefigured or Forestalled in Archaic Poetry?; Why No Historical Tragedies?; Falsehood and Fashioning, or Veracity, Verisimilitude, and "Versionification"; Rhetoric and History; The Logographers: From the Silly to the Serious; Conclusions; Bibliography; Chapter 2 Herodotus and the Limits of Happiness: Beyond Epic, Lyric, and Logography; Life and Times. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Composition and StructureTheme 1: Human Nature and Happiness; Theme 2: Power; Themes, "Top Stories," and the Logic of logoi; Book 1; Book 2; Book 3; Book 4; Book 5; Book 6; Book 7; Book 8; Book 9; Conclusions; Bibliography; Chapter 3 Thucydides on the Ends of Power; Life and Times; Composition, Style, and Structure of the Work; The Nature and Culture of Power; Human Nature, Norms and Exceptions; Themes and Significant Passages; Book 1: The "Archaeology"; Book 2; Book 3; Book 4; Book 5; The Melian Dialogue, 5.84-116; Book 6; Book 7; Book 8; Conclusions; Bibliography. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 4 Xenophon on Leadership and Moral AuthorityLife and Times; The Anabasis; Themes of the Anabasis; Narrative of the Anabasis; Hellenica; Themes of the Hellenica; Narrative of the Hellenica; Conclusions; Bibliography; Chapter 5 History and Rhetoric in Fourth-Century Historians; History and Representation; Philosophy and History; The Historians; The Atthidographers; The Oxyrhynchus Historian; Ephorus and Theopompus; Conclusions; Bibliography; Chapter 6 Diversity and Innovation in the Hellenistic Era; The Early Historians of Alexander; The Historians of Western Greece; Conclusions. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Evolution of a GenreFormal Aspects of Ancient Historiography; Power, Metaforces, Historical Philosophies, and Continuities; Human Nature; Supernatural Forces; Causation; Leadership; Civilization and the "Barbarians"; Legacy; Bibliography; Further Reading; Electronic Editions; General Books on the Greek Historians; Chapter 1 Origins and Early Forms; Chapter 2 Herodotus; Translations; General Discussion; Chapter 3 Thucydides; Translations; General Discussion; Chapter 4 Xenophon; Translations; General Discussions; Chapter 5 The Fourth Century; General Discussion; The Oxyrhynchus Historian. | |
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