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Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras - History Without Historians (Hardcover, New)
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Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras - History Without Historians (Hardcover, New)
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This volume in The Edinburgh Leventis Studies series collects the
papers presented at the sixth A. G. Leventis conference organised
under the auspices of the Department of Classics at the University
of Edinburgh. As with earlier volumes, it engages with new research
and new approaches to the Greek past, and brings the fruits of that
research to a wider audience. Although Greek historians were
fundamental in the enterprise of preserving the memory of great
deeds in antiquity, they were not alone in their interest in the
past. The Greeks themselves, quite apart from their historians and
in a variety of non-historiographical media, were constantly
creating pasts for themselves that answered to the needs -
political, social, moral and even religious - of their society. In
this volume eighteen scholars discuss the variety of ways in which
the Greeks constructed de-constructed, engaged with, alluded to,
and relied on their pasts whether it was in the poetry of Homer, in
the victory odes of Pindar, in tragedy and comedy on the Athenian
stage, in their pictorial art, in their political assemblies, or in
their religious practices. What emerges is a comprehensive overview
of the importance of and presence of the past at every level of
Greek society.
In the final chapter the three discussants present at the
conference (Simon Goldhill, Christopher Pelling and Suzanne Said)
survey the contributions to the volume, summarise its overall
contributions as well as indicate new directions that further
scholarship might follow."
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