
Intentional History
Spinning Time in Ancient Greece
Franz Steiner Verlag
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2010
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-3-515-09683-6 (ISBN)
Description
The contributions assembled in this volume study the social function and functioning of notions and ideas about the past held by groups and individuals, with a special focus on ancient Greece but including comparative contributions on early China and on the function of the classical past in modern European culture. Special attention is devoted to the past as a foundation for collective identities and to the ways in which the goals and needs of specific groups impacted its representation and transmission. Contributions range in time from the archaic age to the Roman Empire, covering aspects such as the representation of the past in visual arts, the function of myth and its representation in literary and visual genres, the relationship of historiography to social memory, and the way that the past features in Greek religion. Monuments, literary texts, inscriptions are investigated in order to reconstruct the rich texture of Greek social memory and its development over time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
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sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Illustrations
17
17 s/w Abbildungen
17 schw.-w. Abb.
Dimensions
Height: 24 cm
Width: 17 cm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
740 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-515-09683-6 (9783515096836)
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Persons
Editor
Lin Foxhall, Professor of Greek Archaeology and History, University of Leicester.
Professor Foxhall has published extensively on gender in classical antiquity, as well as on agriculture and the ancient economy. She has written Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece: Seeking the Ancient Economy (Oxford 2007) and co-edited Greek Law in its Political Setting: Justification not Justice (Oxford 1996), Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition (London 1998) and When Men were Men: Masculinity, Power and Identity in Classical Antiquity (London 1998).
Hans-Joachim Gehrke, President of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.
Professor Gehrke's many publications include Phokion. Studien zur Erfassung seiner historischen Gestalt (Munich 1976), Stasis. Untersuchungen zu den inneren Kriegen in den griechischen Staaten des 5. und 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Munich 1985), Jenseits von Athen und Sparta. Das Dritte Griechenland und seine Staatenwelt (Munich 1986), Alexander der Große (Munich 1996) and Kleine Geschichte der Antike (Munich 1999). He has edited or co-edited Rechtskodifizierung und soziale Normen im interkulturellen Vergleich (Tübingen 1994), Vergangenheit und Lebenswelt. Soziale Kommunikation, Traditionsbildung und historisches Bewußtsein (Tübingen 1996), Retrospektive. Konzepte von Vergangenheit in der griechisch-römischen Antike (Munich 1996), Gründungsmythen und Geschichtsbilder (Würzburg 2001), Normen, Ausgrenzungen, Hybridisierungen und 'Acts of Identity' (Würzburg 2004), and Jacob Burckhardt und die Griechen (Munich 2006).
Nino Luraghi is the D. Magie Professor of Classics at Princeton University. He has published widely on ancient Greek history and historiography. His interests include tyranny and monarchy in Greece from the archaic age to the Roman conquest, ancient and modern slavery, ethnic identity and tradition, and Greek and Roman historiography and its audiences.