On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian

On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2017-12-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780141393582

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What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology, translated and edited by Professor John Marincola, contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history in the ancient world. The study of history was invented in the classical world. Treading uncharted waters, writers such as Plutarch and Lucian grappled with big questions such as how history should be written, how it differs from poetry and oratory, and what its purpose really is. This book includes complete essays by Dionysius, Plutarch and Lucian, as well as shorter pieces by Pliny the Younger, Cicero and others, and will be an essential resource for anyone studying history and the ancient world.

Reconfiguring the Imperial Past Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian s History of the Empire

Reconfiguring the Imperial Past  Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian   s History of the Empire
Author: Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2022-05-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004516922

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This book argues that Herodian uses an orderly and coherent historiographical form to reconfigure and explicate a most chaotic period of Roman history. Through patterning he offers a distinctive interpretative framework in which successive reigns and individual emperors need to be read in a dovetailed way.

Herodian s World

Herodian s World
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2021-12-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004500457

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The volume collects fourteen essays on Herodian that investigate the most important aspects of his historiography: literature, politics, economy, religion and warfare.

Dynamics of Ancient Prose

Dynamics of Ancient Prose
Author: Thea S. Thorsen,Stephen Harrison
Publsiher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-05-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783110594430

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Ancient prose is intriguingly diverse. This volume explores the dynamics of the Latin and Greek prose of the Roman empire in the forms of biography, novel and apologetics which have historically lacked recognition as uncanonical genres, and yet appear vital today. Focusing on the sophistication in thought and artistic texture to be found within these literary kinds, this volume offers a collection of stimulating essays for students and scholars of literature and culture in antiquity - and beyond.

The Essential Greek Historians

The Essential Greek Historians
Author: Stanley Burstein
Publsiher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781647920517

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"Burstein’s The Essential Greek Historians is an excellent collection of texts representing the development of historiography in the ancient Greek world. Each text is presented in an engaging and readable translation, with an insightful introduction exploring the purposes behind its composition, the significance of its contribution to the growth of historiography as a literary genre, and the context in which its author thought and wrote. These texts include not only familiar favorites like Herodotus and Thucydides, but also sources such as The Parian Marble and Memnon’s History of Heracleia, which give a broader and richer view of the ways in which Greeks engaged with history. In one economical volume, Burstein has created an indispensable introduction to the historical thought of the ancient Greeks. No student of Greek historiography should be without it." —Erik Jensen, Salem State University Includes an introduction, maps, and selections from Herodotus' The Histories, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's The Hellenica, Aristotle's The Constitution of Athens, The Parian Marble, Polybius' The Histories, Memnon's History of Heracleia, Plutarch's Life of Alexander. See the full Table of Contents on the www.hackettpublishing.com book title page.

Authority and History

Authority and History
Author: Juliana Bastos Marques,Federico Santangelo
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2022-12-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781350269460

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This book examines authority in discourse from ancient to modern historians, while also presenting instances of current subversions of the classical rhetorical ethos. Ancient rhetoric set out the rules of authority in discourse, and directly affected the claims of Greek and Roman historians to truth. These working principles were consolidated in modern tradition, but not without modifications. The contemporary world, in its turn, subverts in many new ways the weight of the author's claim to legitimacy and truth, through the active role of the audiences. How have the ancient claims to authority worked and changed from their own times to our post-modern, digital world? Online uses and outreach displays of the classical past, especially through social media, have altered the balance of the authority traditionally bestowed upon the ancients, demonstrating what the linguistic turn has shown: the role of the reader is as important as that of the writer.

Emotion and Historiography in Polybius Histories

Emotion and Historiography in Polybius    Histories
Author: Regina M. M. Loehr
Publsiher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2023-12-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781003835110

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This volume explores emotion and its importance in Polybius’ conception of history, his writing of historiography, and the benefits of this understanding to readers of history. How and why did ancient historians include emotions in their texts? This book argues that in the Histories of Polybius – the Greek historian who recorded Rome’s rise to dominion in the ancient Mediterranean – emotions play an effective role in history, used by the historian to explain the causes of actions, connect events, and make sense of human behavior. Through analysis of the emotions in the narrative and theory of Polybius’ Histories using critical terminology and frameworks from modern philosophy, psychology, and political science, this work calls into question assumptions that emotions were purely irrational and detrimental in ancient history, politics, and historiography. Emotions often positively shape Polybius’ historical narrative, provide criteria for the success and morality of agents, actions, and even historians, and aid the historian in guiding readers to become intelligent leaders and citizens of a new world centered on Rome. Emotion and Historiography in Polybius’ Histories is a fascinating read for students and scholars of ancient historiography and history, as well as those working on ancient political thought, emotions in the ancient Greek world, and emotion in history and literature more broadly.

Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History

Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History
Author: Aaron Turner
Publsiher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2020-10-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783110627305

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The distinction between ancient and modern modes of historical thought is characterized by the growing complexity of the discipline of history in modernity. Consequently, the epistemological and methodological standard of ancient historiography is typically held as inferior against the modern ideal. This book serves to address this apparent deficit. Its scope is three-fold. Firstly, it aims at encountering ancient modes of historical and historiographical thought within the province of their own horizon. Secondly, this book considers the possibility of a dialogue between ancient and modern philosophies of history concerning the influence of ancient historical thought on the development of modern philosophy of history and the utility of modern philosophy of history in the interpretation of ancient historiography. Thirdly, this book explores the continuities and discontinuities in historical method and thought from antiquity to modernity. Ultimately, this volume demonstrates the necessity of re-evaluating our assumptions about the relation of ancient and modern historical thought and lays the groundwork for a more fruitful dialogue in the future.