Lessons from the past : the moral use of history in fourth-century prose / / Frances Pownall
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| Autore: |
Pownall Frances <1963->
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| Titolo: |
Lessons from the past : the moral use of history in fourth-century prose / / Frances Pownall
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| Pubblicazione: | Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (215 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 938/.06/072 |
| Soggetto topico: | Historiography - Moral and ethical aspects - Greece - History - To 1500 |
| Exempla in literature | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Greece History To 146 B.C Historiography |
| Greece Intellectual life To 146 B.C | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-198) and index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Lessons from the past |
| ISBN: | 9786612597657 |
| 9781282597655 | |
| 1282597655 | |
| 9780472025671 | |
| 0472025678 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910966446803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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