Author: Timothy Peter WisemanPublisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Clio's Cosmetics
Author: Timothy Peter WisemanPublisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Clio and the Poets
Author: David LevenePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047400496
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
In this book seventeen leading scholars examine the interaction between historiography and poetry in the Augustan age: how poets drew on — or reacted against — historians’ presentation of the world, and how, conversely, historians transformed poetic themes for their own ends.
Clio
Author: Clio's Other Sons
Author: John D DilleryPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047212045X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
Soon after the death of Alexander the Great, the priest Berossus wrote the first known narrative and comprehensive history of his native Babylon, and the priest Manetho likewise wrote the first such history of his native Egyptian civilization. Nothing like these histories had been produced before in these cultures. Clio’s Other Sons considers why that is: why were these histories written at this point, and for what purposes? Berossus and Manetho operated at the crossings of several political, social, and intellectual worlds. They were members of native elites under the domination of Macedonian overlords; in their writings we can see suggestions that they collaborated in the foreign rule of their lands, but at the same time we see them advocating for their cultures. Their histories were written in Greek and betray active engagement with Greek historical writing, but at the same time these texts are clearly composed from native records, are organized along lines determined by local systems of time-reckoning, and articulate views that are deeply informed by regional scholarly and wisdom traditions. In this volume John Dillery charts the interactions of all these features of these historians. An afterword considers Demetrius, the approximate contemporary of Berossus and Manetho in time, if not in culture. While his associates wrote new histories, Demetrius’ project was a rewriting of an existing text, the Bible. This historiographical “corrective” approach sheds light on the novel historiography of Manetho and Berossus.
Clio make-up
Author: Clio ZammatteoPublisher:
ISBN: 9788817081689
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : it
Pages : 253
Book Description
Imperium Sine Fine
Author: Jerzy LinderskiPublisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN: 9783515069489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Aus dem Inhalt: George W. Houston: Fasti Broughtoniani: The Professional Activities and Published Works of Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton Working on the Magistrates: An Excerpt from T. R. S. BroughtonAes Autobiography George W. Houston: Broughton Remembered Ronald T. Ridley: T. R. S. Broughton and Friedrich Munzer T. P. Wiseman: The Minucii and Their Monument Robert E. A. Palmer: The Deconstruction of Mommsen on Festus 462/464 L, or the Hazards of Interpretation C. F. Konrad: Notes on Roman Also-Rans Jerzy Linderski: Q. Scipio Imperator Ernst Badian: Tribuni Plebis and Res Publica Erich S. Gruen: The Roman Oligarchy: Image and Perception
Clio's Cosmetics
Author: Timothy Peter WisemanPublisher: Presses Université Laval
ISBN: 9781904675006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Clio is Muse of history, her 'cosmetics' the adornments of rhetoric. Peter Wiseman's influential book, first published in 1979 and now for the first time in paperback, concerns the writing of history during the first century BCE, when Rome was in process of becoming the centre of the Greek, as much as her own, literary world. Historians, trained in the schools of rhetoric, prized elegant plausibility above the empirical objectivity we expect of them today. Legend and history intermingled; history and poetry overlapped.This study divides into three distinct parts. The first treats the problems that arise from reading first century history as if it were written by modern, non-rhetorical standards. The second examines the pseudo-history of the gens Claudia, fabricated during the first century and transmitted to us by Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. The third discusses Catullus' dedication of his poetry to the historian Cornelius Nepos against the background of the two authors' common intellectual heritage. The book represents a significant contribution towards an appreciation of ancient historiography and Roman culture. History is viewed here as rhetoric, as myth-making, and as poetry.
Clio's Cosmetics
Author: T. P. WisemanOvid's Causes
Author: K. Sara MyersPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472104598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A stimulating investigation of some of Ovid's source-material.
Making Time for the Past
Author: Katherine ClarkePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019929108X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
In this study of time and history in the ancient Greek world, Katherine Clarke argues that choices concerning the articulation and expression of time, especially time past, reflect the values of those who narrate it and also of their audiences. In this way construction of the past both displays and contributes to a sense of shared identity.