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How to Do Things with History - New Approaches to Ancient Greece (Hardcover)
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How to Do Things with History - New Approaches to Ancient Greece (Hardcover)
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How to Do Things with History is a collection of essays that
explores current and future approaches to the study of ancient
Greek cultural history. Rather than focus directly on methodology,
the essays in this volume demonstrate how some of the most
productive and significant methodologies for studying ancient
Greece can be employed to illuminate a range of different kinds of
subject matter. These essays, which bring together the work of some
of the most talented scholars in the field, are based upon papers
delivered at a conference held at Cambridge University in September
of 2014 in honor of Paul Cartledge's retirement from the post of A.
G. Leventis Professor of Ancient Greek Culture. For the better part
of four decades, Paul Cartledge has spearheaded intellectual
developments in the field of Greek culture in both scholarly and
public contexts. His work has combined insightful historical
accounts of particular places, periods, and thinkers with a
willingness to explore comparative approaches and a keen focus on
methodology. Cartledge has throughout his career emphasized the
analysis of practice - the study not, for instance, of the history
of thought but of thinking in action and through action. The
assembled essays trace the broad horizons charted by Cartledge's
work: from studies of political thinking to accounts of legal and
cultural practices to politically astute approaches to
historiography. The contributors to this volume all take the
parameters and contours of Cartledge's work, which has profoundly
influenced an entire generation of scholars, as starting points for
their own historical and historiographical explorations. Those
parameters and contours provide a common thread that runs through
and connects all of the essays while also offering sufficient
freedom for individual contributors to demonstrate an array of rich
and varied approaches to the study of the past.
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