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Arrian the Historian - Writing the Greek Past in the Roman Empire (Hardcover)
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Arrian the Historian - Writing the Greek Past in the Roman Empire (Hardcover)
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During the first centuries of the Roman Empire, Greek intellectuals
wrote a great many texts modeled on the dialect and literature of
Classical Athens, some 500 years prior. Among the most successful
of these literary figures were sophists, whose highly influential
display oratory has been the prevailing focus of scholarship on
Roman Greece over the past fifty years. Often overlooked are the
period’s historians, who spurned sophistic oral performance in
favor of written accounts. One such author is Arrian of Nicomedia.
Daniel W. Leon examines the works of Arrian to show how the era's
historians responded to their sophistic peers’ claims of
authority and played a crucial role in theorizing the past at a
time when knowledge of history was central to defining Greek
cultural identity. Best known for his history of Alexander the
Great, Arrian articulated a methodical approach to the study of the
past and a notion of historical progress that established a
continuous line of human activity leading to his present and
imparting moral and political lessons. Using Arrian as a case study
in Greek historiography, Leon demonstrates how the genre functioned
during the Imperial Period and what it brings to the study of the
Roman world in the second century.
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