Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus

AvLisa Irene Hau

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across. Hau also shows how moral didacticism was an integral part of the writing of history from its inception in the 5th century BC, how it developed over the next 500 years in parallel with the development of historiography as a genre and how the moral messages on display remained surprisingly stable across this period. For the ancient Greek historiographers, moral didacticism was a way of making sense of the past and making it relevant to the present; but this does not mean that they falsified events: truth and morality were compatible and synergistic ends.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-06-20
Mått:156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt:626 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474411073

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Lisa Irene Hau is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow. She holds a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London, and studied for her first two degrees at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. She is the author of Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus (EUP 2016) and co-editor of Diodoros of Sicily. Historiographical Theory and Practice in the Bibliotheke, (Peeters 2018) and Truth and History in the Ancient World. Pluralising the Past (Routledge 2016). She has also published articles on numerous topics related to ancient historiography. In 2017-18 she held an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for experienced researchers at the University of Heidelberg.

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The bibliography, the place index, and the general index (p. 278-312) round off the book, which is also designed in a graphically appealing manner. Overall, Hau's comprehensive work provides thought-provoking and interesting suggestions. (Translated from the German)

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PrefaceIntroductionPart I. Hellenistic HistoriographyChapter 1. PolybiusChapter 2. Diodorus SiculusChapter 3. Fragmentary Hellenistic HistoriographyIntroductionTimaeus of Tauromenium (FGrH 566) Duris of Samos (FGrH 76)Phylarchus (FGrH 81)Agatharchides of Cnidus (FGrH 86)Posidonius of Apamea (FGrH 87)Hieronymus of Cardia (FGrH 154)ConclusionPart II. Classical HistoriographyIntroductionChapter 4. HerodotusChapter 5. ThucydidesChapter 6. Xenophon HellenicaChapter 7. Fragments of Classical HistoriographersThe Oxyrhynchus HistorianEphorus of Cyme (FGrH 70)Theopompus of Chios (FGrH 115) Conclusion: from macro and minimalist moralising to explicit paradeigmataConclusionBibliographyText editionsScholarly literature