Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians Edinburgh Leventis Studies

John Marincola (Editor), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Editor), Calum Maciver (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0748643966 / ISBN 13: 9780748643967

Published by Edinburgh University Press, Scotland, 2012

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New hardcover with black cloth boards and gilt lettering to spine in a new dust jacket. 8vo. (9.3 x 1.1 x 6.3 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photos and illustrations. Includes Index Locorum and a general index. 378 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A wide examination of the ways in which the Greeks constructed, de-constructed, engaged with and relied on their pasts This volume in The Edinburgh Leventis Studies series collects the papers presented at the sixth A. G. Leventis conference organised under the auspices of the Department of Classics at the University of Edinburgh. As with earlier volumes, it engages with new research and new approaches to the Greek past, and brings the fruits of that research to a wider audience. Although Greek historians were fundamental in the enterprise of preserving the memory of great deeds in antiquity, they were not alone in their interest in the past. The Greeks themselves, quite apart from their historians and in a variety of non-historiographical media, were constantly creating pasts for themselves that answered to the needs - political, social, moral and even religious - of their society. In this volume eighteen scholars discuss the variety of ways in which the Greeks constructed de-constructed, engaged with, alluded to, and relied on their pasts whether it was in the poetry of Homer, in the victory odes of Pindar, in tragedy and comedy on the Athenian stage, in their pictorial art, in their political assemblies, or in their religious practices. What emerges is a comprehensive overview of the importance of and presence of the past at every level of Greek society. In the final chapter the three discussants present at the conference (Simon Goldhill, Christopher Pelling and Suzanne Saïd) survey the contributions to the volume, summarize its overall contributions as well as indicate new directions that further scholarship might follow.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians Edinburgh Leventis Studies
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, Scotland
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748643966
• ISBN 13: 9780748643967
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Greece
  • From the Library of Peter Green
  • Ancient History
  • Classical Literature

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Synopsis

A wide examination of the ways in which the Greeks constructed, de-constructed, engaged with and relied on their pasts. This volume in The Edinburgh Leventis Studies series collects the papers presented at the sixth A. G. Leventis conference organised under the auspices of the Department of Classics at the University of Edinburgh. Eighteen scholars discuss the variety of ways in which the Greeks constructed de-constructed, engaged with, alluded to, and relied on their pasts whether it was in the poetry of Homer, in the victory odes of Pindar, in tragedy and comedy on the Athenian stage, in their pictorial art, in their political assemblies, or in their religious practices. What emerges is a comprehensive overview of the importance of and presence of the past at every level of Greek society.

About the Author

John Marincola is Leon Golden Professor of Classics at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is senior lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. Calum Maciver is lecturer in Classics at the University of Leeds.