The Greeks and their past : poetry, oratory and history in the fifth century BCE / Jonas Grethlein.
Material type: TextLanguage: English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.Description: xii, 350 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780521110778 (hbk.)
- 0521110777 (hbk.)
- Geschichte 500 v. Chr.-400 v. Chr
- Greek poetry -- History and criticism
- Rhetoric, Ancient -- History and criticism
- Literature and history -- Greece
- Literatur
- Kollektives Ged�achtnis
- Geschichte (Motiv)
- Greece -- History -- 146 B.C.-323 A.D. -- Sources
- Greece -- Historiography
- Griechisch
- Griechenland (Altertum)
- 880.9001 22
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Circulating | Philip Becker Goetz Library | PA3009 .G745 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Part I, Clio polytropos : non-historiographical media of memory. Epinician poetry : Pindar, Olympian 2 ; Elegy : the 'new Simonides' and earlier elegies ; Tragedy : Aeschylus, Persae ; Epideictic oratory : Lysias, epitaphios logos ; Deliberative oratory : Andocides, de pace -- Part II, The rise of Greek historiography. Herodotus ; Thucydides ; Epilogue : historical fevers, ancient and modern ; Appendix : Lengthy historical narratives in Tyrtaeus and Mimnermus.
In English, some Ancient Greek with English translations; occasional phrases in Ancient Greek.
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