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A comprehensive anthology of the classical historians--from the early Greeks through the late Romans, right up to the beginnings of the Christian era.
Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :
A comprehensive anthology of the classical historians--from the early Greeks through the late Romans, right up to the beginnings of the Christian era.
Author : Michael Grant
Publisher :
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 1994
Category :
ISBN : 9780705425209
Author : Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1317517849
The survival of ancient Greek historiography is largely due to its preservation by Byzantine copyists and scholars. This process entailed selection, adaptation, and commentary, which shaped the corpus of Greek historiography in its transmission. By investigating those choices, Kaldellis enables a better understanding of the reception and survival of Greek historical writing. Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians includes translations of texts written by Byzantines on specific ancient historians. Each translated text is accompanied by an introduction and notes to highlight the specific context and purpose of its composition. In order to present a rounded picture of the reception of Greek historiography in Byzantium, a wide range of genres have been considered, such as poems and epigrams, essays, personalized scholia, and commentaries. Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians is therefore an important resource for scholars and students of ancient history.
Author : Mario Baumann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 3110764121
Although the relationship of Greco-Roman historians with their readerships has attracted much scholarly attention, classicists principally focus on individual historians, while there has been no collective work on the matter. The editors of this volume aspire to fill this gap and gather papers which offer an overall view of the Greco-Roman readership and of its interaction with ancient historians. The authors of this book endeavor to define the physiognomy of the audience of history in the Roman Era both by exploring the narrative arrangement of ancient historical prose and by using sources in which Greco-Roman intellectuals address the issue of the readership of history. Ancient historians shaped their accounts taking into consideration their readers’ tastes, and this is evident on many different levels, such as the way a historian fashions his authorial image, addresses his readers, or uses certain compositional strategies to elicit the readers’ affective and cognitive responses to his messages. The papers of this volume analyze these narrative aspects and contextualize them within their socio-political environment in order to reveal the ways ancient readerships interacted with and affected Greco-Roman historical prose.
Author : Michael Maas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0415473365
This volume seeks to make accessible to students a multiplicity of texts which illuminate the history, culture, medicine, philosophy, religion and peoples of late antiquity.
Author : D. Brendan Nagle
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199978458
This book contains a comprehensive selection of historical documents for courses in Greek History and Civilization, and Western Civilization. It includes material dealing with all the major aspects of Greek historical experience: political, social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and technological.
Author : Leslie Chew
Publisher : Walter Foster Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1610586069
Music lovers of all ages are drawn to the pure melodies of classical music. Now aficionados of this timeless genre can learn something about classical music every day of the year! Readers will find everything from brief biographies of their favorite composers to summaries of the most revered operas. Interesting facts about the world’s most celebrated songs and discussions of classical music–meets–pop culture make this book as fun as it is informative. Ten categories of discussion rotate throughout the year: Classical Music Periods, Compositional Forms, Great Composers, Celebrated Works, Basic Instruments, Famous Operas, Music Theory, Venues of the World, Museums & Festivals, and Pop Culture Medley.
Author : Ronald Mellor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1136222618
The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume. After a general introduction on Roman historical writing, extensive passages from more than a dozen Greek and Roman historians and biographers trace the history of Rome over more than a thousand years: from the city’s foundation by Romulus in 753 B.C.E. (Livy) to Constantine’s edict of toleration for Christianity (313 C.E.) Selections include many of the high points of Rome’s climb to world domination: the defeat of Hannibal; the conquest of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean; the defeat of the Catilinarian conspirators; Caesar’s conquest of Gaul; Antony and Cleopatra; the establishment of the Empire by Caesar Augustus; and the "Roman Peace" under Hadrian and long excepts from Tacitus record the horrors of the reigns of Tiberius and Nero. The book is intended both for undergraduate courses in Roman history and for the general reader interested in approaching the Romans through the original historical sources. Hence, excerpts of Polybius, Livy, and Tacitus are extensive enough to be read with pleasure as an exciting narrative. Now in its third edition, changes to this thoroughly revised volume include a new timeline, translations of several key inscriptions such as the Twelve Tables, and additional readings. This is a book which no student of Roman history should be without.
Author : Susan Sorek
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1441179917
An accessible and concise overview of Greek and Roman history writing.
Author : Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 2019-12-14
Category :
ISBN : 9780367869199
The survival of ancient Greek historiography is largely due to its preservation by Byzantine copyists and scholars. This process entailed selection, adaptation, and commentary, which shaped the corpus of Greek historiography in its transmission. By investigating those choices, Kaldellis enables a better understanding of the reception and survival of Greek historical writing. Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians includes translations of texts written by Byzantines on specific ancient historians. Each translated text is accompanied by an introduction and notes to highlight the specific context and purpose of its composition. In order to present a rounded picture of the reception of Greek historiography in Byzantium, a wide range of genres have been considered, such as poems and epigrams, essays, personalized scholia, and commentaries. Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians is therefore an important resource for scholars and students of ancient history.