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Grethlein, Jonas - Greeks and Their Past

Greeks and Their Past : Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth Century BCE

By: Grethlein, Jonas (Author). Cambridge University Press. Published: 28/02/2010. Audience Guide: Professional & Vocational.
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Ancient Greeks remembered their past before the rise of historiography and after it poetry and oratory continued to serve commemorative functions. This book explores the field of literary memory in the fifth century BCE, juxtaposing the works of Herodotus and Thucydides with samples from epinician poetry, elegy, tragedy and oratory. Various socio-political contexts and narrative forms lent themselves to the expression of diverse attitudes towards the past. At the same time, a common gravitational centre can be observed which is distinct from modern ideas of history. As well as presenting a broad overview on memory in various genres, Professor Grethlein sheds new light on the rise of Greek historiography. He views Herodotus and Thucydides against the background of memory in poetry and oratory and thereby elucidates the tension between tradition and continuity in which the shaping of historiography as a genre took place.

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ISBN10/13: 0521110777/9780521110778
TITLE: Greeks and Their Past, The
CONTRIBUTORS: Grethlein, Jonas (Author)
IMPRINT: Cambridge University Press
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press
FORMAT: Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE: 28/02/2010
SUBJECT: History, History, Literature, Theory, Methods & Historiography, World History, History & Criticism
DIMENSIONS (Width x Height): 152mm x 228mm
PAGES: 384
AUDIENCE GUIDE: Professional & Vocational
ILLUSTRATIONS: 3 b/w illus.
CONTENTS:

1. Introduction; Part I. Clio polytropos: Non-historiographical Media of Memory: 2. Epinician poetry: Pindar, Olympian 2; 3. Elegy: the 'New Simonides' and the past in earlier elegies; 4. Tragedy: Aeschylus, Persae; 5. Epideictic oratory: Lysias, Epitaphios Logos; 6. Deliberative oratory: Andocides, De pace; Part II. The Rise of Greek Historiography: 7. Herodotus; 8. Thucydides; 9. Epilogue: historical fevers, ancient and modern; Appendix: lengthy historical narratives in Tyrtaeus and Mimnermus?