The Greeks and their past : poetry, oratory and history in the fifth century BCE

The Greeks and their past : poetry, oratory and history in the fifth century BCE / Jonas Grethlein.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grethlein, Jonas, 1978-
Format: Book
Language:English
Ancient Greek
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Greek poetry > History and criticism.
Rhetoric, Ancient > History and criticism.
Literature and history > Greece.
Greece > History > 146 B.C.-323 A.D. > Sources.
Greece > Historiography.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I, Clio polytropos : non-historiographical media of memory. Epinician poetry : Pindar, Olympian 2 ; Elegy : the 'new Simonides' and earlier elegies ; Tragedy : Aeschylus, Persae ; Epideictic oratory : Lysias, epitaphios logos ; Deliberative oratory : Andocides, de pace
  • Part II, The rise of Greek historiography. Herodotus ; Thucydides ; Epilogue : historical fevers, ancient and modern ; Appendix : Lengthy historical narratives in Tyrtaeus and Mimnermus.

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