Time and narrative in ancient historiography the 'plupast' from Herodotus to Appian
Offers case studies of the past embedded in the past as a window into the ancient historians' workshop.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2012.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; TIME AND NARRATIVE IN ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Note on abbreviations; CHAPTER 1: The historian's plupast: Introductory remarks on its forms and functions; I CLASSIFYING THE HISTORIAN'S PLUPAST; II THE HISTORIAN'S PLUPAST WITHIN HISTORICAL SEMANTICS; III THE HISTORIAN'S PLUPAST AS METAHISTORY; IV SUMMARIES OF CHAPTERS; CHAPTER 2: Speaker's past and plupast: Herodotus in the light of elegy and lyric; I PLUPASTS AT PLATAEA; II PLUPASTS IN CONTENTION; III ESTABLISHING CREDIBILITY: HERODOTEAN AND LYRIC SPEAKERS.
- IV (DIS)LOCATING SPEAKERS' PASTSCHAPTER 3: The mythic plupast in Herodotus; I TOUCHSTONE: THE RECENT/HISTORICAL PLUPAST; II TEGEANS AND ATHENIANS; III SOCLES ON PERIANDER; IV GELON AND SYAGRUS ON TROY; V PISISTRATUS ON HERACLES?; VI CONCLUSION: MYTH AND MEMORY IN THE HISTORIES; CHAPTER 4: The use and abuse of history in the Plataean debate (Thuc. 3.52-68); I ESTABLISHING A NEW GENRE; II THE PAST AS ARGUMENT; III THE SPEECHES AS METAHISTORY; IV INSCRIPTIONS AS METAHISTORY; V HOW TO READ THUCYDIDES; CHAPTER 5: The plupast in Xenophon's Hellenica; I THE FALL OF ATHENS IN 404 BCE.
- II THE THEBANS' SPEECH AT ATHENS IN 395 BCEIII THE ATHENIANS' SPEECHES AT SPARTA IN 371 BCE; IV THE SPARTANS' SPEECHES AT SPARTA IN 369 BCE; V PELOPIDAS' SPEECH IN 367/6 BCE: PLUPAST AND METAHISTORY; CHAPTER 6: Magna mihi copia est memorandi: Modes of historiography in the speeches of Caesar and Cato (Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 51-4); I THE HISTORIOGRAPHIC MODE OF CAESAR'S SPEECH; II THE FRACTURED HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; III CATO'S PRESENT: A HISTORICAL DISCONTINUITY; IV CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 7: Negotiating the plupast: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Roman self-definition; I INTRODUCTION.
- II THE PASTS OF THE CONTRIBUTORY PEOPLESIII CHRONOLOGY AND THE SEVERAL FOUNDATIONS OF ROME; IV THE PLUPAST AS A MODEL FOR INSTITUTIONS; V SPEECHES AND THE EXEMPLARY PLUPAST; VI CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 8: M. Manlius Capitolinus: The metaphorical plupast and metahistorical reflections; I MARCUS MANLIUS CAPITOLINUS
- THE HISTORIAN; II CLIMBING HIGH, FALLING DEEP, WAGING WARS: THEMETAPHORICAL PLUPAST; III AMBIGUOUS EXEMPLA; IV IN RETROSPECT: REREADING THE PLUPAST; V POLYPHONY AND POSSIBLE HISTORIES.
- CHAPTER 9: Repetita bellorum civilium memoria: The remembrance of civil war and its literature in Tacitus, Histories 1.50I DEMONSTRATION OF THE UTILITY AND APPLICABILITY OF LITERATURE; II TACITUS' PLACEMENT OF HIMSELF IN THE LITERARY TRADITION; III CORRECTION OF REPUBLICAN SENTIMENTALITY; CHAPTER 10: Mimesis and the (plu)pastin Plutarchs Lives; I GETTING IT RIGHT: PLUTARCH ON MIMESIS; II IMITATING THE PLUPAST; III THE TOXIC LOOT; CHAPTER 11: War stories: The uses of the plupast in Appian; I THE BROKEN MIRROR; II CAREFULLY TRIUMPHANT; III SCIPIO'S DEFENCE REVISITED; IV ENARGEIA IN ACTION.
