Making time for the past [[electronic resource] ] : local history and the polis / / Katherine Clarke

• Autore: Clarke Katherine
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (423 p.)
• Disciplina: 115.0938
• Soggetto topico: Time; History - Philosophy; Cities and towns, Ancient - Greece; Cities and towns - Greece - History; Cities and towns - History
• Soggetto geografico: Greece History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [372]-389) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Abbreviations; I: Introduction; II: Making a business of time; III: The world outside the polis; IV: 'City is history incarnate': writing the past of the polis; V: Persuasion and plausibility: history and rhetoric in the polis; VI: Time for the polis: audiences and contexts; Epilogue; References; Subject Index; Index of Passages Discussed
• Sommario/riassunto: This book has two main and connected themes - the conception and articulation of time in the Greek world and the creation of history, especially in the context of the Greek city. Both how time is expressed and how the past is presented have often been seen as reflections of society. By looking at the construction of the past through the medium of local historiography, where we can view these issues in the relatively restricted world of individual city-states, we can gain a clearerinsight into how different versions of the past and different constructions of time were offered to the community f
• Titolo autorizzato: Making time for the past
• ISBN: 0-19-969498-2; 1-281-85236-8; 9786611852368; 0-19-153753-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996204971103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno