02841nam 2200673 a 450 991096644680332120171026195700.09786612597657978128259765512825976559780472025671047202567810.3998/mpub.17777(CKB)2520000000006928(OCoLC)588879213(CaPaEBR)ebrary10371894(SSID)ssj0000339793(PQKBManifestationID)11231957(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000339793(PQKBWorkID)10364978(PQKB)11331643(MiAaPQ)EBC3414659(MdBmJHUP)muse9536(MiU)10.3998/mpub.17777(Au-PeEL)EBL3414659(CaPaEBR)ebr10371894(CaONFJC)MIL259765(OCoLC)743200962(BIP)8693308(EXLCZ)99252000000000692820030807d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrLessons from the past the moral use of history in fourth-century prose /Frances PownallAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,c2004.1 online resource (215 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780472113279 0472113275 Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-198) and index.Because of the didactic nature of the historical genre, many scholars ancient and modern have seen connections between history and rhetoric. So far, discussion has centered on fifth-century authors -- Herodotus and Thucydides, along with the sophists and early philosophers. Pownall extends the focus of this discussion into an important period. By focusing on key intellectuals and historians of the fourth century (Plato and the major historians -- Xenophon, Ephorus, and Theopompus), she examines how these prose writers created an aristocratic version of the past as an alternative to the democratic version of the oratorical tradition. Frances Pownall is Professor of History and Classics, University of Alberta.HistoriographyMoral and ethical aspectsGreeceHistoryTo 1500Exempla in literatureGreeceHistoryTo 146 B.CHistoriographyGreeceIntellectual lifeTo 146 B.CHistoriographyMoral and ethical aspectsHistoryExempla in literature.938/.06/072Pownall Frances1963-1867753Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)MiUMiUBOOK9910966446803321Lessons from the past4475454UNINA