Moral History From Herodotus To Diodorus Siculus
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Author | : Hau Lisa Hau |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2016-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474411096 |
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Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across. Hau also shows how moral didacticism was an integral part of the writing of history from its inception in the 5th century BC, how it developed over the next 500 years in parallel with the development of historiography as a genre and how the moral messages on display remained surprisingly stable across this period. For the ancient Greek historiographers, moral didacticism was a way of making sense of the past and making it relevant to the present; but this does not mean that they falsified events: truth and morality were compatible and synergistic ends.
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Release | : 2016 |
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ISBN | : 9781474422048 |
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Author | : Hau Lisa Hau |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2016-05-31 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 1474411088 |
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Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across. Hau also shows how moral didacticism was an integral part of the writing of history from its inception in the 5th century BC, how it developed over the next 500 years in parallel with the development of historiography as a genre and how the moral messages on display remained surprisingly stable across this period. For the ancient Greek historiographers, moral didacticism was a way of making sense of the past and making it relevant to the present; but this does not mean that they falsified events: truth and morality were compatible and synergistic ends.
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Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0292779070 |
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2007 — A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 100-30 BCE) is our only surviving source for a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great. Yet this important historian has been consistently denigrated as a mere copyist who slavishly reproduced the works of earlier historians without understanding what he was writing. By contrast, in this iconoclastic work Peter Green builds a convincing case for Diodorus' merits as a historian. Through a fresh English translation of a key portion of his multi-volume history (the so-called Bibliotheke, or "Library") and a commentary and notes that refute earlier assessments of Diodorus, Green offers a fairer, better balanced estimate of this much-maligned historian. The portion of Diodorus' history translated here covers the period 480-431 BCE, from the Persian invasion of Greece to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. This half-century, known as the Pentekontaetia, was the Golden Age of Periclean Athens, a time of unprecedented achievement in drama, architecture, philosophy, historiography, and the visual arts. Green's accompanying notes and commentary revisit longstanding debates about historical inconsistencies in Diodorus' work and offer thought-provoking new interpretations and conclusions. In his masterful introductory essay, Green demolishes the traditional view of Diodorus and argues for a thorough critical reappraisal of this synthesizing historian, who attempted nothing less than a "universal history" that begins with the gods of mythology and continues down to the eve of Julius Caesar's Gallic campaigns.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2018-11-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004383344 |
Download Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative fourteen specialists study, from literary, linguistic and historical angles the textual strategies that the Greek historian Herodotus and the Roman historian Livy employ in their accounts of two famous battles in ancient history
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Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 806 |
Release | : 2017-12-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0141393580 |
Download On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Hugh Murray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1808 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
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Download Enquiries Historical and Moral Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Charles Edward Muntz |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190498722 |
Download Diodorus Siculus and the World of the Late Roman Republic Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Sumario: Chapter 1 Diodorus, Quellenforschung, and Beyond - Chapter 2 Organizing the World Chapter - 3 The Origins of Civilization - Chapter 4 Mythical History - Chapter 5 The Deified Culture-bringers - Chapter 6 Kings, Kingship, and Rome - Chapter 7 The Roman Civil Wars and the Bibliotheke - Bibliography.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 589 |
Release | : 2019-12-09 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9004414525 |
Download The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext, twenty-one international scholars discuss the afterlife of early Greek lyric poetry (iambic, elegiac, and melic) from the 5th century BCE to the 12th century CE.
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Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780292712775 |
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Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 100-30 BCE) is our only surviving source for a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great. Yet this important historian has been consistently denigrated as a mere copyist who slavishly reproduced the works of earlier historians without understanding what he was writing. By contrast, in this iconoclastic work Peter Green builds a convincing case for Diodorus' merits as a historian. Through a fresh English translation of a key portion of his multi-volume history (the so-called Bibliotheke, or “Library”) and a commentary and notes that refute earlier assessments of Diodorus, Green offers a fairer, better balanced estimate of this much-maligned historian. The portion of Diodorus' history translated here covers the period 480-431 BCE, from the Persian invasion of Greece to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. This half-century, known as the Pentekontaetia, was the Golden Age of Periclean Athens, a time of unprecedented achievement in drama, architecture, philosophy, historiography, and the visual arts. Green's accompanying notes and commentary revisit longstanding debates about historical inconsistencies in Diodorus' work and offer thought-provoking new interpretations and conclusions. In his masterful introductory essay, Green demolishes the traditional view of Diodorus and argues for a thorough critical reappraisal of this synthesizing historian, who attempted nothing less than a “universal history” that begins with the gods of mythology and continues down to the eve of Julius Caesar's Gallic campaigns.