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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777483303321

Autore

Pelling C. B. R.

Titolo

Literary texts and the Greek historian / / Christopher Pelling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-90639-0

1-134-90640-4

0-203-01027-2

1-280-19497-9

0-415-07351-0

Descrizione fisica

x, 338 p

Collana

Approaching the ancient world

Disciplina

880.9/0109358

Soggetti

Greek literature - History and criticism

Literature and history - Greece - History

History, Ancient - Historiography

Historiography - Greece - History

Greece Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [306]-324) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

1. A culture of rhetoric -- 2. Rhetoric and history (415 BC) -- 3. How far would they go? Plutarch on Nicias and Alcibiades -- 4. Rhetoric and history II : Platnea (431-27 BC) -- 5. Explaining the war -- 6. Thucydides' speeches -- 7. 'You cannot be serious' : approaching Aristophanes -- 8. Aristophanes' Acharnians (425 BC) -- 9. Tragedy and ideology -- 10. Lysistrata and others : constructing gender -- 11. Conclusions : texts, audiences, truth.