The Authoritative historian : tradition and innovation in Ancient historiography /
In this volume an international group of scholars revisits the themes of John Marincola's ground-breaking Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography. The nineteen chapters offer a series of case studies that explore how ancient historians'approaches to their projects were informed b...
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2022
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Authoritative Historian |
Obsah:
- Introduction: The Authoritative Historian
- Part I, Myth, Fiction, and the Historian's Authority
- 1, Seven Types of Fiction in the Greek Historians
- 2, Folktale and Local Tradition in Charon of Lampsacus
- 3, Mythical and Historical Time in Herodotus: Scaliger, Jacoby, and the Chronographic Tradition
- 4, Myth and History in Livy's Preface
- Part II, Dislocating Authority in Herodotus' Histories
- 5, Herodotus as Tour Guide: The Autopsy Motif
- 6, Interpretive Uncertainty in Herodotus's Histories
- 7, "It is no accident that...": Connectivity and Coincidence in Herodotus
- 8, Through Barbarian Eyes: Non-Greeks on Greeks in Herodotus
- Part III, Performing Collective and Personal Authority
- 9, Singing and Dancing Pindar's Authority
- 10, Authority, Experience, and the Vicarious Traveller in Herodotus' Histories
- 11, Veni, vidi, vici: Whed did Roman Politicians use the First-Person Singular?
- 12, Self-Praise and Self-Presentation in Plutarch
- Part IV, Generic Transformations
- 13, Thucydides' Mytilenaean Debate: Political Philosophy or Authoritative History?
- 14, Tradition, Innovation, and Authority: Caesar's Historical Ambitions
- 15, Tradition and Authority in Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists
- Part V, Innovation within Tradition
- 16, "When one assumes the ethos of writing history": Polybius' Historiographical Neologisms
- 17, How Tradition is Formed: From the Fall of Caesar to the Rise of Octavian
- 18, Burn, Baby, Burn (Disco in Furneaux): Tacitean Authority, Innovation, and the Neronian Fire (Annals 15.38-9)
- 19, The Authority to be Untraditional