Making time for the past : local history and the polis

Making time for the past : local history and the polis / Katherine Clarke.

"This book is about time and history in the Greek world. In argues that choices concerning the articulation and expression of time, especially time past, reflect the values and aspirations of both those who narrate it and their audiences. Time is thus not only constructed, but also negotiated....

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Main Author: Clarke, Katherine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Time.
History > Philosophy.
Cities and towns, Ancient > Greece.
Cities and towns > Greece > History.
Cities and towns > History.
time.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Cities and towns
Cities and towns, Ancient
History > Philosophy
Time
Greece > History.
Greece
History
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Making a business of time
  • III. world outside the polis
  • IV. 'City is history incarnate': writing the past of the polis
  • V. Persuasion and plausibility: history and rhetoric in the polis
  • VI. Time for the polis: audiences and contexts.

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