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| Author | : Michael Attyah Flower |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Greece |
| ISBN | : 9780198152439 |
Theopompus of Chios was one of the most important ancient Greek historians of the fourth century BC. Although his work has survived only in fragments, it is still a rich and vital source of information for Greek political, social, and intellectual history during the age of Philip of Macedon. This book explores both Theopompus's historical method and the intellectual milieu in which he worked, while placing the fragments themselves in "context" by examining where and why they are cited by later authors. Flower's illuminating and original study leads up to some important new conclusions about historical writing in the fourth century BC--that there was no so-called Isocratean school of rhetorical history; that Theopompus used moral explanations typical of Greek thought to account for historical changes; and that oral tradition, as opposed to rhetorical invention, was still vibrant in the fourth century. All Greek in the book is translated.
| Author | : Michael Flower |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0520259939 |
"Surveying all kinds of evidence—historiographical, literary, dramatic, and visual—Flower provides a comprehensive, readable, and engaging account of the operations of 'seers' during the Classical period."—Mark Griffith, editor of Prometheus Bound and Antigone "In a page-turning tour de force of anthropological reconstruction, classicist Michael Flower revisits hundreds of ancient texts to tease out his case for the absolutely central role of seercraft at all levels of ancient Greek society. Thanks to Flower's invitingly-woven tapestry of their mesmerizing stories and anecdotes, we can now savor, and comprehend through his lucid and persuasive interpretations."—Peter Nabokov, author of Where the Lightning Strikes: American Indian Ways of History
| Author | : Gordon Spencer Shrimpton |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780773508378 |
In Theopompus the Historian, Gordon Shrimpton critically examines the direct evidence concerning the life and lost works of Theopompus of Chios, the fourth-century BC historian and orator, providing the first comprehensive study of the man and his work. In a translation of the fragments (the surviving citations of Theopompus' work) and of the testimonies (the references made to Theopompus' work by other writers), he makes available all that remains of Theopompus' writings.
| Author | : John Marincola |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 697 |
| Release | : 2010-12-09 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1444393820 |
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 scholars Presents broad, chronological treatments of important issues in the writing of history and antiquity These are complemented by chapters on individual genres and sub-genres from the fifth century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E. Provides a series of interpretative readings on the individual historians Contains essays on the neighbouring genres of tragedy, biography, and epic, among others, and their relationship to history
| Author | : Hau Lisa Hau |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2016-05-31 |
| Genre | : Electronic books |
| ISBN | : 1474411088 |
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.
| Author | : Michael A. Flower |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 545 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107050065 |
Introduces Xenophon's writings and their importance for Western culture, while explaining the main scholarly controversies.
| Author | : Paul McKechnie |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 187 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780856683589 |
The Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, substantial fragments of history by an anonymous 4th century writer, cover the years 410 BC and 396 BC a period which is at the heart of most students' study of Greek history.
| Author | : Albert Borowitz |
| Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780873388184 |
In this timely study of the roots of terrorism, author Albert Borowitz deftly assesses the phenomenon of violent crime motivated by a craving for notoriety or self-glorification. He traces this particular brand of terrorism back to 356 BCE and the destruction of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus by arsonist Herostratos and then examines similar crimes through history to the present time, detailing many examples of what the author calls the Herostratos Syndrome, such as the attempted explosion of the Greenwich Observatory in 1894, the Taliban's destruction of the giant Buddhas in Afghanistan, the assassination of John Lennon, the Unabomber strikes, and the attacks on the World Trade Center buildings. terrorism cannot be the exclusive focus of a single field of scholarship, Borowitz presents this complex subject using sources based in religion, philosophy, history, Greek mythology, and world literature, including works of Chaucer, Cervantes, Mark Twain, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Terrorism for Self-Glorification, written in clear and direct prose, is original, thorough, and thought provoking. Scholars, specialists, and general readers will find their understanding of terrorism greatly enhanced by this book.
| Author | : Ian Worthington |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Alexander the Great is probably the most famous ruler of antiquity. But what of his father, Philip II, who united Macedonia, created the best army in the world at the time, and conquered and annexed Greece? This biography brings to light Philip's political, economic, military, social, and cultural accomplishments.
| Author | : Frances Anne Pownall |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2010-02-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0472025678 |
Because of the didactic nature of the historical genre, many scholars ancient and modern have seen connections between history and rhetoric. So far, discussion has centered on fifth-century authors -- Herodotus and Thucydides, along with the sophists and early philosophers. Pownall extends the focus of this discussion into an important period. By focusing on key intellectuals and historians of the fourth century (Plato and the major historians -- Xenophon, Ephorus, and Theopompus), she examines how these prose writers created an aristocratic version of the past as an alternative to the democratic version of the oratorical tradition. Frances Pownall is Professor of History and Classics, University of Alberta.
