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Literary Texts and the Greek Historian
By Christopher Pelling
350 pages
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- Routledge
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- London
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Synopsis
Literary Texts and the Greek Historian provides a comprehensive and well-documented survey of the ways in which non-historical texts, as well as historical ones, can be used to construct Greek history.Christopher Pelling introduces the volume with a chapter on the inventiveness of ancient authors and explores the genres of literature from which we construct our accounts of ancient history.Related books and articles at Questia
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Preface vii
- Chapter 1 - A Culture of Rhetoric 1
- Chapter 2 - Rhetoric and History (415 Bc) 18
- Chapter 3 - How Far Would They Go? Plutarch on Nicias and Alcibiades 44
- Chapter 4 - Rhetoric and History Ii: Plataea (431-27 Bc) 61
- Chapter 5 - Explaining the War 82
- Chapter 6 - Thucydides’ Speeches 112
- Chapter 7 - ‘you Cannot Be Serious’: Approaching Aristophanes 123
- Chapter 8 - Aristophanes’ Acharnians (425 Bc) 141
- Chapter 9 - Tragedy and Ideology 164
- Chapter 10 - Lysistrata and Others: Constructing Gender 189
- Chapter 11 - Conclusions: Texts, Audiences, Truth 246
- Notes 254
- Bibliography 306
- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Preface vii
- Chapter 1 - A Culture of Rhetoric 1
- Chapter 2 - Rhetoric and History (415 Bc) 18
- Chapter 3 - How Far Would They Go? Plutarch on Nicias and Alcibiades 44
- Chapter 4 - Rhetoric and History Ii: Plataea (431-27 Bc) 61
- Chapter 5 - Explaining the War 82
- Chapter 6 - Thucydides’ Speeches 112
- Chapter 7 - ‘you Cannot Be Serious’: Approaching Aristophanes 123
- Chapter 8 - Aristophanes’ Acharnians (425 Bc) 141
- Chapter 9 - Tragedy and Ideology 164
- Chapter 10 - Lysistrata and Others: Constructing Gender 189
- Chapter 11 - Conclusions: Texts, Audiences, Truth 246
- Notes 254
- Bibliography 306
- General Index 325
- Index of Authors and Texts 331