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The Malice of Herodotus

Author : Plutarque
Publisher : Aris and Phillips Classical Te
ISBN 13 : 0856685682
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book The Malice of Herodotus written by Plutarque and published by Aris and Phillips Classical Te. This book was released on 1992 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Malice of Herodotus can perhaps best be described as the world's earliest known book review. But it is much more than that, for in the course of 'correcting' with considerable vituperation what he saw as Herodotus' anti-Greek bias, Plutarch tells us much about his own attitude to writing history. So that together with Lucian's How to Write History (see Lucian A Selection in this series) it forms a basic text for the study of Greek historiography. It is also perhaps the most revealing example of Plutarch's prose style with its rhetorical variety and energy and odd mixture of good and bad argument. But in citing lost works, Plutarch has preserved valuable fragments which don't exist elsewhere and need to be assessed by all students of the Persian Wars. Greek text with translion, introduction and commentary.

On the Malice of Herodotus

Author : Plutarchus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book On the Malice of Herodotus written by Plutarchus and published by . This book was released on with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Malice of Herodotus

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781800343191
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Malice of Herodotus written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Malice of Herodotus' can perhaps best be described as the world's earliest known book review. But it is much more than that, for in the course of 'correcting' with considerable vituperation what he saw as Herodotus' anti-Greek bias, Plutarch tells us much about his own attitude to writing history. So that together with Lucian's How to Write History, it forms a basic text for the study of Greek historiography. It is also perhaps the most revealing example of Plutarch's prose style with its rhetorical variety and energy and odd mixture of good and bad argument. But in citing lost works, Plutarch has preserved valuable fragments which don't exist elsewhere and need to be assessed by all students of the Persian Wars. The book presents Greek text with translation, introduction and commentary.

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900429984X
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill's Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond offers new insights on the reception and cultural transmission of one of the most controversial and influential texts to have survived from Classical Antiquity. Herodotus’ Histories has been adopted, adapted, imitated, contested, admired and criticized across diverse genres, historical periods, and geographical boundaries. This companion, edited by Jessica Priestley and Vasiliki Zali, examines the reception of Herodotus in a range of cultural contexts, from the fifth century BC to the twentieth century AD. The essays consider key topics such as Herodotus' place in the Western historiographical tradition, translation of and scholarly engagement with the Histories, and the use of the Histories as a model for describing and interpreting cultural and geographical material.

Rhetoric and Reality in Early Christianities

Author : Willi Braun
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889209138
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Book Synopsis Rhetoric and Reality in Early Christianities by : Willi Braun

Download or read book Rhetoric and Reality in Early Christianities written by Willi Braun and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most pressing issues for scholars of religion concerns the role of persuasion in early Christianities and other religions in Greco-Roman antiquity. The essays in Rhetoric and Reality in Early Christianities explore questions about persuasion and its relationship to early Christianities. The contributors theorize about persuasion as the effect of verbal performances, such as argumentation in accordance with rules of rhetoric, or as a result of other types of performance: ritual, behavioural, or imagistic. They discuss the relationship between the verbal performance of rhetoric and other performative modes in generating, sustaining, and transmitting a persuasive form of religiosity. The essays in this book cover a wide chronological range (from the first century to late antiquity) and diverse topical examples contribute to the collection’s thematic centre: the relations among formalized and technical verbal performances (rhetoric, texts) and other forms of persuasive performances (ritual, practices), the social agendas that early Christians pursued by means of verbal, rhetorical performances, and the larger social context in which Christians and other religious groups competitively jockeyed to attract the minds and bodies of audiences in the Greco-Roman world.

Brill's Companion to Herodotus

Author : Egbert J. Bakker
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004217584
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Brill's Companion to Herodotus written by Egbert J. Bakker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002-05-31 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herodotus’ Histories can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology, and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as naïve and ‘archaic’, the Histories are now seen as very much a product of the intellectual climate of their own day - not only subject to contemporary literary, religious, moral and social influences, but actively contributing to the great debates of their time. Their reliability as historical and ethnographic accounts, a matter of controversy even in antiquity, is being debated with renewed vigour and increasing sophistication. This Companion offers an up-to-date and in-depth overview of all these current approaches to Herodotus’ remarkable work.

Plutarch’s >Parallel Lives

Author : Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110574713
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch’s >Parallel Lives written by Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Parallel Lives Plutarch does not absolve his readers of the need for moral reflection by offering any sort of hard and fast rules for their moral judgement. Rather, he uses strategies to elicit readers’ active engagement with the act of judging. This book, drawing on the insights of recent narrative theories, especially narratology and reader-response criticism, examines Plutarch’s narrative techniques in the Parallel Lives of drawing his readers into the process of moral evaluation and exposing them to the complexities entailed in it. Subjects discussed include Plutarch’s prefatory projection of himself and his readers and the interaction between the two; Plutarch’s presentation of the mental and emotional workings of historical agents, which serves to re-enact the participants’ experience at the time and thus arouse empathy in the readers; Plutarch’s closural strategies and their profound effects on the readers’ moral inquiry; Plutarch’s principles of historical criticism in On the malice of Herodotus in relation to his narrative strategies in the Lives. Through illustrating Plutarch’s narrative technique, this book elucidates Plutarch’s praise-and-blame rhetoric in the Lives as well as his sensibility to the challenges inherent in recounting, reading about, and evaluating the lives of the great men of history.

Plutarch's Moralia: On the malice of Herodotus. Cuases of natural phenomena

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Moralia: On the malice of Herodotus. Cuases of natural phenomena written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Greek Historians

Author : John Marincola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199225019
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Greek Historians written by John Marincola and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey of more recent work on Herodotus, Thucydides and Polybius synthesises some of the most important research from the last few decades.

Erato, the sixth book of Herodotus' histories, tr. by E.S. Crooke

Author : Herodotus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Erato, the sixth book of Herodotus' histories, tr. by E.S. Crooke written by Herodotus and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004383344
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative fourteen specialists study, from literary, linguistic and historical angles the textual strategies that the Greek historian Herodotus and the Roman historian Livy employ in their accounts of two famous battles in ancient history

Aesopic Conversations

Author : Leslie Kurke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400836565
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Aesopic Conversations written by Leslie Kurke and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past. This book, however, explores the anonymous Life of Aesop and offers a different set of perspectives. Leslie Kurke argues that the traditions surrounding this strange text, when read with and against the works of Greek high culture, allow us to reconstruct an ongoing conversation of "great" and "little" traditions spanning centuries. Evidence going back to the fifth century BCE suggests that Aesop participated in the practices of nonphilosophical wisdom (sophia) while challenging it from below, and Kurke traces Aesop's double relation to this wisdom tradition. She also looks at the hidden influence of Aesop in early Greek mimetic or narrative prose writings, focusing particularly on the Socratic dialogues of Plato and the Histories of Herodotus. Challenging conventional accounts of the invention of Greek prose and recognizing the problematic sociopolitics of humble prose fable, Kurke provides a new approach to the beginnings of prose narrative and what would ultimately become the novel. Delving into Aesop, his adventures, and his crafting of fables, Aesopic Conversations shows how this low, noncanonical figure was--unexpectedly--central to the construction of ancient Greek literature. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Plutarch Caesar

Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198149042
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch Caesar written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's Life of Caesar deals with the best known Roman of them all, Julius Caesar, and covers virtually all of the major events of the last generation of the Republic. Pelling's volume gives a new translation of the Life, together with an introduction and commentary, while also acknowledging the literary aspects of the narrative.

Faces of History

Author : Donald R. Kelley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300075588
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Faces of History written by Donald R. Kelley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, one of the world's leading intellectual historians offers a critical survey of Western historical thought and writing from the pre-classical era to the late eighteenth century. Donald R. Kelley focuses on persistent themes and methodology, including questions of myth, national origins, chronology, language, literary forms, rhetoric, translation, historical method and criticism, theory and practice of interpretation, cultural studies, philosophy of history, and "historicism." Kelley begins by analyzing the dual tradition established by the foundational works of Greek historiography--Herodotus's broad cultural and antiquarian inquiry and the contrasting model of Thucydides' contemporary political and analytical narrative. He then examines the many variations on and departures from these themes produced in writings from Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian antiquity, in medieval chronicles, in national histories and revisions of history during the Renaissance and Reformation, and in the rise of erudite and enlightened history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Throughout, Kelley discusses how later historians viewed their predecessors, including both supporters and detractors of the authors in question. The book, which is a companion volume to Kelley's highly praised anthology Versions of History from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, will be a valuable resource for scholars and students interested in interpretations of the past.

The Greco-Persian Wars

Author : Peter Green
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520917065
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Greco-Persian Wars written by Peter Green and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-11-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.S. The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the fledgling Greek states reached its high point with the extraordinary Greek victory at Salamis in 480 B.C. The astonishing sea battle banished forever the specter of Persian invasion and occupation. Peter Green brilliantly retells this historic moment, evoking the whole dramatic sweep of events that the Persian offensive set in motion. The massive Greek victory, despite the Greeks' inferior numbers, opened the way for the historic evolution of the Greek states in a climate of creativity, independence, and democracy, one that provided a model and an inspiration for centuries to come. Green's accounts of both Persian and Greek strategies are clear and persuasive; equally convincing are his everyday details regarding the lives of soldiers, statesmen, and ordinary citizens. He has first-hand knowledge of the land and sea he describes, as well as full command of original sources and modern scholarship. With a new foreword, The Greco-Persian Wars is a book that lovers of fine historical writing will greet with pleasure.

Thucydides and Herodotus

Author : Edith Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199593264
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Thucydides and Herodotus written by Edith Foster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thucydides and Herodotus is an edited collection which looks at two of the most important ancient Greek historians living in the 5th Century BCE. It examines the relevant relationship between them which is considered, especially nowadays, by historians and philologists to be more significant than previously realized.

Space, Time and Language in Plutarch

Author : Aristoula Georgiadou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110538113
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Space, Time and Language in Plutarch written by Aristoula Georgiadou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Space and time' have been key concepts of investigation in the humanities in recent years. In the field of Classics in particular, they have led to the fresh appraisal of genres such as epic, historiography, the novel and biography, by enabling a close focus on how ancient texts invest their representations of space and time with a variety of symbolic and cultural meanings. This collection of essays by a team of international scholars seeks to make a contribution to this rich interdisciplinary field, by exploring how space and time are perceived, linguistically codified and portrayed in the biographical and philosophical work of Plutarch of Chaeronea (1st-2nd centuries CE). The volume's aim is to show how philological approaches, in conjunction with socio-cultural readings, can shed light on Plutarch's spatial terminology and clarify his conceptions of time, especially in terms of the ways in which he situates himself in his era's fascination with the past. The volume's intended readership includes Classicists, intellectual and cultural historians and scholars whose field of expertise embraces theoretical study of space and time, along with the linguistic strategies used to portray them in literary or historical texts.