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Literary texts and the Greek historian /

Literary Texts and the Greek Historian provides a comprehensive and well documented survey of the ways in which non-historical texts, as well as historical ones, can be used to construct Greek history.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pelling, C. B. R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Subjects:
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Literature and history > Greece > History.
History, Ancient > Historiography.
Historiography > Greece > History.
Greece > Historiography.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0203010272
9780203010273
9780415073509
0415073502
9780415073516
0415073510
0203311671
9780203311677
6610194971
9786610194971
9781134906352
1134906358
9781134906390
1134906390
9781134906406
1134906404
1280194979
9781280194979
9781134906376
1134906374
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • A culture of rhetoric
  • Rhetoric and history (415 BC)
  • How far would they go? Plutarch on Nicias and Alcibiades
  • Rhetoric and history II: Platnea (431-27 BC)
  • Explaining the war
  • Thucydides' speeches
  • 'You cannot be serious': approaching Aristophanes
  • Aristophanes' Acharnians (425 BC)
  • Tragedy and ideology
  • Lysistrata and others: constructing gender
  • Conclusions: texts, audiences, truth.

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