The Greeks and their past : poetry, oratory and history in the fifth century BCE / Jonas Grethlein.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: 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.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 880.9001 22
Contents:
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.
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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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