Greek and Roman historiography/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Ancient Greek Latin French German |
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Oxford; New York:
Oxford University Press,
c2011
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| Series: | Oxford readings in classical studies
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Table of Contents:
- I. Constructing the past : myth, memory, and history. Thucydides is not a colleague / Nicole Loraux. Myth, history, politics
- ancient and modern / Hans-Joachim Gehrke. Genealogy and the genealogists / Rosalind Thomas. Some aspects of source theory in Greek historiography / Guido Schepens. The tradition on Early Rome and oral history / Ju?rgen von Ungern-Sternberg. Memoria and historiography in Rome / Dieter Timpe. Etruscan historiography in Rome / T. J. Cornell
- II. Rhetoric, truth, and falsehood. Cicero and historiography / P.A. Brunt. Cicero and the writing of history / A.J. Woodman. Ancient views on the causes of bias in historical writing / T. J. Luce. Lying historians : seven types of mendacity / T. J. Wiseman. True history and false history in Classical Antiquity / Emilio Gabba
- III. History and poetry. The historical 'cycle' / Luciano Canfora. History and tragedy / F.W. Walbank. Poetry and historiography : a study in the use of sources / Hermann Funke.