Intentional History
Spinning Time in Ancient Greece
1st Edition
Published on 11. December 2015
360 pages
978-3-515-11288-8 (ISBN)
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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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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).
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Hans-Joachim Gehrke war nach Promotion und Habilitation als Professor für Alte Geschichte an den Universitäten Würzburg, Berlin und Freiburg tätig. Von 2008 bis 2011 war er Präsident des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Als Honorar- und Gastprofessor war er an Universitäten in Berlin, München, Perugia und Zürich sowie am Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington und am Collège de France tätig. Gehrke arbeitet aktuell als Emeritus an der Universität Freiburg und als Director of Outreach an der University College in Freiburg. Er forscht in Griechenland zu den Themen Olympia und Akropolis von Athen.
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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.
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. GREEK REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PAST
- 3. MYTH AS PAST? ON THE TEMPORAL ASPECT OF GREEK DEPICTIONS OF LEGEND
- 4. THE TROJAN WAR'S RECEPTION IN EARLY GREEK LYRIC, IAMBIC AND ELEGIAC POETRY
- 5. THE GREAT RHETRA (PLUT. LYC. 6): A RETROSPECTIVE AND INTENTIONAL CONSTRUCT?
- 6. COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES, IMAGINED PAST, AND DELPHI
- 7. FISH HEADS AND MUSSEL-SHELLS: VISUALIZING GREEK IDENTITY
- 8. MEDIA FOR THESEUS, OR: THE DIFFERENT IMAGES OF THE ATHENIAN POLIS-HERO
- 9. ULTERIOR MOTIVES IN ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY: WHAT EXACTLY, AND WHY?
- 10. TRAGIC MEMORIES OF DIONYSOS
- 11. CONNECTING WITH THE PAST IN LYKOURGAN ATHENS: AN EPIGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE
- 12. INTENTIONAL HISTORY: ALEXANDER, DEMOSTHENES AND THEBES
- 13. THE DEMOS AS NARRATOR: PUBLIC HONOURS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF FUTURE AND PAST
- 14. GOD AND KING AS SYNOIKISTS: DIVINE DISPOSITION AND MONARCHIC WISHES COMBINED IN THE TRADITIONS OF CITY FOUNDATIONS FOR ALEXANDER'S AND HELLENISTIC TIMES
- 15. "THEY THAT HELD ARKADIA." ARKADIAN FOUNDATION MYTHS AS INTENTIONAL HISTORY IN ROMAN IMPERIAL TIMES
- 16. ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE NOMADS AND 'BARBARIAN' HISTORY IN HAN CHINA
- 17. BEYOND INTENTIONAL HISTORY: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODEL OF THE IDEA OF HISTORY
- 18. CONSTRUCTING ANTIQUITY AND MODERNITY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: DISTANTIATION, ALTERITY, PROXIMITY, IMMANENCY
