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(Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 364 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x21 mm, kaal: 530 g, Worked examples or Exercises; Printed music items
  • Ilmumisaeg: 05-Dec-2013
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107656281
  • ISBN-13: 9781107656284
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 364 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x21 mm, kaal: 530 g, Worked examples or Exercises; Printed music items
  • Ilmumisaeg: 05-Dec-2013
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107656281
  • ISBN-13: 9781107656284
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Ancient Greeks remembered their past before the rise of historiography and after it poetry and oratory continued to serve commemorative functions. This book explores the field of literary memory in the fifth century BCE, juxtaposing the works of Herodotus and Thucydides with samples from epinician poetry, elegy, tragedy and oratory. Various socio-political contexts and narrative forms lent themselves to the expression of diverse attitudes towards the past. At the same time, a common gravitational centre can be observed which is distinct from modern ideas of history. As well as presenting a broad overview on memory in various genres, Professor Grethlein sheds new light on the rise of Greek historiography. He views Herodotus and Thucydides against the background of memory in poetry and oratory and thereby elucidates the tension between tradition and continuity in which the shaping of historiography as a genre took place.

Investigates the field of memory in the literature of the fifth century BCE. Covers poetry and oratory as well as the works of the first Greek historians, Herodotus and Thucydides, and offers a fresh assessment of the rise of Greek historiography.

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'Grethlein has written a remarkably broad, erudite, and often original study.' Victor Bers, American Journal of Philology 'This is an ambitious, lucid, well-researched and well-organized book [ It] provides a stimulating argument and one based on much careful analysis of ancient texts and knowledge of the extensive relevant modern scholarship One looks forward for more from Jonas Grethlein in the future on these and similar challenging topics.' Carolyn Dewald, Classical Journal ' a valuable read on Hellenic memory as ideological tool.' Donald Lateiner, The Historian

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Investigates literary memory in the fifth century BCE, covering poetry and oratory as well as the first Greek historians.
List of figures
vii
Preface ix
Abbreviations xi
1 Introduction
1(16)
1.1 Memory beyond historiography
1(4)
1.2 A phenomenological model of the idea of history
5(7)
1.3 Outline of the work
12(5)
PART I CLIO POLYTROPOS: NON-HISTORIOGRAPHICAL MEDIA OF MEMORY
17(130)
2 Epinician Poetry: Pindar, Olympian 2
19(28)
2.1 The structure
20(4)
2.2 Theron's victory and the history of his family
24(9)
2.3 Pindar's speech--act and the time of his ode
33(7)
2.4 The socio-political context
40(3)
2.5 Conclusion
43(4)
3 Elegy: The `New Simonides' and earlier elegies
47(27)
3.1 The content of Simonides fr. II W2
48(6)
3.2 The idea of history in the `New Simonides' and other elegies
54(8)
3.3 Elegy and epic
62(6)
3.4 The socio-political context
68(4)
3.5 Conclusion
72(2)
4 Tragedy: Aeschylus, Persae
74(31)
4.1 The distanced past
75(4)
4.2 The idea of history
79(7)
4.3 Contingency of chance and reception
86(10)
4.4 The socio-political context
96(1)
4.5 Conclusion
97(8)
5 Epideictic oratory: Lysias, epitaphios logos
105(21)
5.1 The content and the idea of history
108(9)
5.2 The funeral speech -- a speech-act
117(4)
5.3 The socio-political context
121(1)
5.4 Conclusion
122(4)
6 Deliberative oratory: Andocides, de pace
126(21)
6.1 The content and the idea of history
129(4)
6.2 Andocides, de pace vs. Lysias, epitaphios logos
133(3)
6.3 An oligarchic view of the past?
136(3)
6.4 Conclusion
139(5)
6.5 Summary of Part I
144(3)
PART II THE RISE OF GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY
147(144)
7 Herodotus
149(56)
7.1 Explicit criticism of other genres of memory: the Helen-logos (2.112-20)
151(7)
7.2 Implicit criticism of the use of the past in oratory (the Syracusan embassy scene (7.153--63); the speech duel at Plataea (9.26--7))
158(29)
7.3 Continuity in the idea of history: the Croesus-logos (1.26--94)
187(16)
7.4 Conclusion
203(2)
8 Thucydides
205(76)
8.1 Explicit criticism of other genres of memory (methodological reflections in 1.20--2; the digression on the tyrannicide (6.54--9))
206(14)
8.2 Implicit critisism of the use of the past in oratory (Pericles' funeral speech (2.35--46); the Plataean Debate (3.52--68))
220(20)
8.3 Continuity in the idea of history: The Sicilian Expedition
240(39)
8.4 Conclusion
279(2)
9 Epilogue: Historical fevers, ancient and modern
281(10)
Appendix: Lengthy historical narratives in Tyrtaeus and Mimnermus? 291(6)
Bibliography 297(35)
Index locorum 332(8)
Index of Greek words 340(1)
General Index 341
Jonas Grethlein is Professor of Classics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. He studied at Göttingen, Oxford and Freiburg before holding positions at Harvard and the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2006 he received the prestigious Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz award for junior scholars. In addition to numerous articles he has published Asyl und Athen. Die Konstruktion kollektiver Identität in der griechischen Tragödie (2003) and Das Geschichtsbild der Ilias. Eine Untersuchung des Geschichtsbildes der Ilias aus phänomenologischer und narratologischer Perspektive (2006) and edited (with A. Rengakos) Narratology and Interpretation: The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature (forthcoming).