Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The 'Plupast' from Herodotus to Appian

ISBN-13: 9781316628867 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 268 str.

Jonas Grethlein; Christopher B. Krebs

Opis

This book offers case studies of the past embedded in the past as a window into the ancient historians' workshop.

Spis treści

1. The historian's plupast: introductory remarks on its forms and functions Jonas Grethlein and Christopher B. Krebs; 2. Speaker's past and plupast: Herodotus in the light of elegy and lyric Deborah Boedeker; 3. The mythic plupast in Herodotus Emily Baragwanath; 4. The use and abuse of history in the Plataean debate (Thuc. 3.52–68) Jonas Grethlein; 5. The plupast in Xenophon's Hellenica Tim Rood; 6. Magna mihi copia est memorandi: modes of historiography in the speeches of Caesar and Cato (Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 51–4) Andrew Feldherr; 7. Negotiating the plupast: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Roman self-definition Clemence Schultze; 8. M. Manlius Capitolinus: the metaphorical plupast and metahistorical reflections Christopher B. Krebs; 9. Repetita bellorum ciuilium memoria: the remembrance of civil war and its literature in Tacitus, Histories 1.50 Timothy Joseph; 10. Mimesis and the (plu)past in Plutarch's Lives Alexei Zadorojnyi; 11. War stories: the uses of the plupast in Appian Luke Pitcher.