Herodotean Narrative and Discourse
Herodotean Narrative and Discourse

Author: Mabel L. Lang

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780674389854

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Mabel Lang offers a new interpretation of Herodotus. Her reading of the "Father of History" pinpoints the aspects of his style that clearly derive from oral composition. Lang examines oral techniques in storytelling, known from folktales and other oral literature as well as from Homer. She shows how the dramatic use of speeches--so characteristic of folk literature--played an important part in Herodotus' development of history out of the chronologies and geographies that he knew. Story form and speeches attributed to historical persons, she demonstrates, follow traditional formulas. She also studies in detail Herodotus' distinctive use of proverbs and rhetorical questions. Throughout, Lang draws on a variety of materials and offers particularly revealing comparisons of Homeric and Herodotean styles. This analysis of the evidence for oral composition in Herodotus' Histories opens a new perspective for students and scholars of Greek history.

Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative
Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-26

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 9004383344

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In this collected volume fourteen experts in the fields of Classics and Ancient History study the textual strategies used by Herodotus and Livy when recounting the disastrous battles at Thermopylae and Cannae. Literary, linguistic and historical approaches are used (often in combination) in order to enhance and enrich the interpretation of the accounts, which for obvious reasons confronted the authors with a special challenge. Chapters drawing a comparison with other battle narratives and with other genres help to establish genre-specific elements in ancient historiography, and draw attention to the particular techniques employed by Herodotus and Livy in their war narratives.

Thucydides and Herodotus
Thucydides and Herodotus

Author: Edith Foster

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-05-03

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0199593264

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Thucydides and Herodotus is an edited collection which looks at two of the most important ancient Greek historians living in the 5th Century BCE. It examines the relevant relationship between them which is considered, especially nowadays, by historians and philologists to be more significant than previously realized.

Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse
Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse

Author: Mabel L. Lang

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780979971341

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Jeffrey S. Rusten is Professor of Classics at Cornell University. He is the author of books on Thucydides, Theophrastus, Greek comedy, and Sophocles, among others, and the author of many articles and important Greek software. --

Speech in Ancient Greek Literature
Speech in Ancient Greek Literature

Author: Mathieu de Bakker

Publisher: Mnemosyne, Supplements

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 720

ISBN-13: 9789004498808

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"Speech in Ancient Greek Literature is the fifth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. There is hardly any Greek narrative text without speech, which need not surprise in the literature of a culture which loved theatre and also invented the art of rhetoric. This book offers a full discussion of the types of speech, the modes of speech and their effective alternation, and the functions of speech from Homer to Heliodorus, including the Gospels. For the first time speech-introductions and 'speech in speech' are discussed across all genres. All chapters also pay attention to moments when characters do not speak"--

Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus
Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus

Author: , Emily Baragwanath

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-09-06

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 0199693978

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This volume brings together 13 original articles which review, re-establish, and rehabilitate the origins, forms, and functions of the mythological elements that are found in the narratives of Herodotus' Histories.

Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography
Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography

Author: A. D. Morrison

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-30

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1108492320

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Argues that Herodotus is key to understanding genre and the relationship between past and present in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica.

Telling Wonders
Telling Wonders

Author: Rosaria Vignolo Munson

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780472112036

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A sharp analysis of how Herodotus' narrative participates in the rhetoric of shaping public attitudes about the present

Strategies of Persuasion in Herodotus’ Histories and Genesis–Kings
Strategies of Persuasion in Herodotus’ Histories and Genesis–Kings

Author: Eva Tyrell

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 900442797X

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In Strategies of Persuasion in Herodotus’ Histories and Genesis–Kings, Eva Tyrell comparatively analyzes narrative means in two monumental ancient texts about the past. Combining a narratological approach with insights of modern historical theory and biblical scholarship, she investigates patterns of narrative persuasion as a trans-cultural phenomenon and their connection with ancient concepts of reality and truth. The study contrasts differences in fundamental narrative structures of both narratives, such as mediacy and discursive versus diegetic text portions. It explores the role of material remains mentioned in the accounts to evoke or even create the reality of a past.

Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus
Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus

Author: Emily Baragwanath

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2008-05-15

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 019160786X

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In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC, Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and perceptions that shaped those events and became critical to their interpretation afterwards. Much as the contemporary sophists strove to discover truth about the invisible, Herodotus was acutely concerned to uncover hidden human motivations, whose depiction was vital to his project of recounting and explaining the past. Emily Baragwanath explores the sophisticated narrative techniques with which Herodotus represented this most elusive variety of historical knowledge. Thus he was able to tell a lucid story of the past while nonetheless exposing the methodological and epistemological challenges it presented. Baragwanath illustrates and analyses a range of these techniques over the course of a wide selection of Herodotus' most intriguing narratives - from those on Athenian democracy and tyranny to Leonidas and Thermopylae - and thus supplies a method for reading the Histories more generally.