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8 produkter
Patterns of the Past
Epitēdeumata in the Greek Tradition
Av Alfonso Moreno, Rosalind Thomas
Inbunden, 2014
2333 kr
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Classical Greek consistently uses epitēdeumata to signify 'way of life' or even 'everyday habits', but always refers to practices that are deliberately pursued, not traditions and customs that are passively carried on. In this volume, an international group of leading academics undertake an …
Herodotus in Context
Ethnography, Science and the Art of Persuasion
Häftad, 2002
842 kr
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Herodotus called his work an enquiry and wrote before 'history' was a separate discipline. Coming from Halicarnassus, at the crossroads between the Persian and Athenian spheres of influence, he combined the culture of Athens with that of the more pluralistic and less ethnocentric cities of east …
Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens
Inbunden, 1989
2230 kr
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Despite its written literature, ancient Greece was in many ways an oral society. This is the first serious attempt to study the implications of this view. Dr Thomas stresses the coexistence of literacy and oral tradition in Greece and examines their character and interaction. Concentrating on the …
Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece
Av Rosalind Thomas, P. A. Cartledge m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
687 kr
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This book explores the role of written and oral communication in Greece and is the first systematic and sustained treatment at this level. It examines the recent theoretical debates about literacy and orality and explores the uses of writing and oral communication, and their interaction, in ancient …
Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens
Av Rosalind Thomas, Peter Burke m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
435 kr
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Despite its written literature, ancient Greece was in many ways an oral society. This is the first serious attempt to study the implications of this view. Dr Thomas stresses the coexistence of literacy and oral tradition in Greece and examines their character and interaction. Concentrating on the …
Herodotus in Context
Ethnography, Science and the Art of Persuasion
Inbunden, 2000
1872 kr
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Herodotus called his work an enquiry and wrote before 'history' was a separate discipline. Coming from Halicarnassus, at the crossroads between the Persian and Athenian spheres of influence, he combined the culture of Athens with that of the more pluralistic and less ethnocentric cities of east …
Polis Histories, Collective Memories and the Greek World
Inbunden, 2019
2215 kr
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Greek 'local histories', better called polis and island histories, have usually been seen as the poor relation of mainstream 'great' Greek historiography, and yet they were demonstrably popular and extremely numerous from the late Classical period into the Hellenistic. The extensive fragments and …
Polis Histories, Collective Memories and the Greek World
Häftad, 2022
569 kr
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Greek 'local histories', better called polis and island histories, have usually been seen as the poor relation of mainstream 'great' Greek historiography, and yet they were demonstrably popular and extremely numerous from the late Classical period into the Hellenistic. The extensive fragments and …
