| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 6.
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| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
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"This volume brings together revised versions of papers originally presented at the sixth A.G. Leventis conference, 'History without historians: Greeks and their Past in the Archaic and Classical Era', which was held at the University of Edinburgh, 5-7 November 2009"--Preface. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction : a past without historians / John Marincola -- Homer and heroic history / Jonas Grethlein -- Hesiod on human history / Bruno Currie -- Helen and 'I' in early Greek lyric / Deborah Boedeker -- Stesichorus and Ibycus : plain tales from the Western front / Ewen Bowie -- Pindar and the reconstruciton of the past / Maria Pavlou -- Debating the past in Euripides' 'Troades' and 'Orestes' and in Sophocles' 'Electra' / Ruth Scodel -- Euripidean explainers / Allen Romano -- Old comedy and popular history / Jeffrey Henderson -- Attic heroes and the construction of the Athenian past in the fifth century / H. A. Shapiro -- Family time : temporality, gender and materiality in Ancient Greece / Lin Foxhall -- Common knowledge and the contestation of history in some fourth-century Athenian trials / Jon Hesk -- Plato and the stability of history / Kathryn A. Morgan -- Inscribing the past : remembering revolution at Athens / Julia L. Shear -- 'Remembering the ancient way of life' : primitivism in Greek sacrificial ritual / Emily Kearns -- The great kings of the fourth century and the Greek memory of the Persian past / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones -- Commentary / Simon Goldhill, Suzanne Saïd and Christopher Pelling. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Greece -- Historiography.
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| Added Author |
Marincola, John.
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Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd.
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Maciver, Calum Alasdair.
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Ebooks Corporation
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| Added Title |
History without historians |
| Related To |
Original 9780748643967 0748643966 |
| ISBN |
0748643974 (electronic bk.) |
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9780748643974 (electronic bk.) |
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9780748643967 (hbk.) |
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0748643966 (hbk.) |
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