The Greek Historians

The Greek Historians

Author: Torrey James Luce

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780415105927

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The Greeks invented history as a literary genre in the fifth century BC. This book follows the development of history from Herodotus, via Thucydides, Xenophon and Polybius, until the Hellenistic age.


The Greek Histories

The Greek Histories

Author: Mary Lefkowitz

Publisher: Modern Library

Published: 2022-01-18

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1984854313

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From the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient Greece as recorded by its first chroniclers “Just the thing to remind us that human history, though lamentably a work in progress, is always something we can understand better.”—Sarah Ruden, translator of The Gospels and author of The Face of Water The historians of ancient Greece were pioneers of a new literary craft; their work stands among the world’s most enduring and important legacies and forms the foundation of a major modern discipline. This highly readable edition includes new and newly revised translations of selections from Herodotus—often called the “father of history”—Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch, the four greatest Greek innovators of historical narrative. Here the reader will find their most important, and most widely taught, passages collected in a single volume. The excerpts chart the landmark events of ancient Greece and provide a comprehensive account of the entire classical Greek age. From the start the Greek historians demonstrated how broad and varied historical writing could be and brought their craft beyond a mere chronicle of past events. This volume explores each author’s interest in religion, leadership, character, and the lessons of war. How, for instance, should readers interpret Herodotus’ inclusion of speeches and dialogues, dreams, and oracles as part of the “factual” record? What did Thucydides understand about human nature that (as he said) stays constant throughout time? How did Plutarch frame historical biography as a means of depicting the moral qualities of great men? Complete with introductions to the works of each historian, footnotes providing context and explaining obscurities, maps, and an appendix on the Greek conduct of war, this volume is an invaluable resource for students and passionate readers of history alike.


Greek Historians

Greek Historians

Author: John Marincola

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-12-13

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780199225019

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This survey of more recent work on Herodotus, Thucydides and Polybius synthesises some of the most important research from the last few decades.


The Ancient Historians

The Ancient Historians

Author: Michael Grant

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 9781566195997

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Grant offers a study of the primary historians of Greece and Rome, discussing the works and methods of the founders of the historical discipline. These philosophers studied history as a moral discipline that bears meaningfully not only on the past but on future human conduct.


Literary Texts and the Greek Historian

Literary Texts and the Greek Historian

Author: Christopher Pelling

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-22

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1134906390

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Our knowledge of Greek history rests largely on literary texts - not merely historians (especially Herodotus, Thucylides and Xenephon), but also tragedies, comedies, speeches, biographies and philosophical works. These texts are themselves among the most skilled and highly wrought productions of a brilliant rhetorical culture. How is the historian to use them? This book addresses this problem by taking a series of extended test-cases, and discussing how we should and should not try to exploit the texts. In some instances we can investigate 'what really happened', and the ways in which the texts manipulate, remould, or colour it according to their own rhetorical strategies; in others the most illuminating aspect may be those strategies themselves, and what they tell us about the culture - how it figured questions of sex and gender, politics, citizenship and the city, the law and the courts and how wars happen. Literary Texts and the Greek Historian concentrates on Athens in the second half of the fifth-century, when many of the principal genres came together, but includes some examples from earlier (Aeschylus ^Oresteia) and later (including Aristotles poetics). Literary Texts and the Greek Historian examines the range of responses to these texts and suggests new ways in which literary criticism can illuminate the society from which these texts sprang.


Greek Historiography

Greek Historiography

Author: Thomas F. Scanlon

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1119085802

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This volume provides an accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date survey of the ancient Greek genre of historical writing from its origins before Herodotus to the Greek historians of the Roman imperial era, seven centuries later. Focuses on the themes of power and human nature, causation, divine justice, leadership, civilization versus barbarism, legacy, and literary reception Includes thorough summaries alongside textual analysis that signpost key passages and highlight thematic connections, helping readers navigate their way through the original texts Situates historical writing among the forms of epic and lyric poetry, drama, philosophy, and science Uses the best current translations and includes a detailed list of further reading that includes important new scholarship


Shaping the Canons of Ancient Greek Historiography

Shaping the Canons of Ancient Greek Historiography

Author: Ivan Matijašić

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 3110476274

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The main focus of this book is the ancient formation and development of the canons of Greek historiography. It takes a fresh look on the modern debate on canonical literature and deals with Greek historiographical traditions in the works of ancient rhetors and literary critics. Writings on historiography by Cicero, Quintilian, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus are chiefly taken into account to explore the canons of Greek historians in Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Ages. Essential in canon-formation was the concept of classicism which took shape in the Age of Augustus, but whose earlier developments can be traced back to Isocrates, a model rhetor according to Dionysius at the end of the 1st century BC. The analysis explores also late-antique authors of school treatises and progymnasmata, a field where historiography had a pedagogical function. Previous studies on canonical literature have rarely considered historiography. This book examines not only the works of ancient historians and their legacy, but also the relationship between historiography, literary criticism, and the rhetorical tradition.


Greek and Roman Historians

Greek and Roman Historians

Author: Michael Grant

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1134828217

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Grant shows us how the historians of antiquity routinely try to deceive, but he argues for the continuing vital importance of their work, and offers new ways of reading and interpreting it. An indispensible guide to using source-material.


The History of Herodotus

The History of Herodotus

Author: Herodotus

Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Booksellers & Publishers

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13:

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This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!


Thucydides

Thucydides

Author: Robin S. Doak

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2006-07

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9780756518752

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Learn about the life of this famous early historian.