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The Greeks and their Past - Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth Century BCE (Hardcover, New)
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The Greeks and their Past - Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth Century BCE (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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