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5. Cinzia Bearzot, The Use of Documents in Xenophon’s Hellenica

5. The Use of Documents in Xenophon’s Hellenica Cinzia Bearzot The conference ‘L’uso dei documenti nella storiografia antica’ (Gubbio 22–24 maggio 2001), which presented findings of research conducted under the direction of Paolo Desideri, and the proceedings of which were published in 2003, highlighted the fact that ancient historians, although well aware of the rhetorical nature of historical writing, actually privileged the role of documentary sources. Read more

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3. John Marincola, Rethinking Isocrates and Historiography

3. Rethinking Isocrates and Historiography [1] John Marincola 1. It is a truism often expressed when studying classical historiography that we are hampered by an absence of theoretical writings on the subject. Although we know the names of several works written “On History” in antiquity, [2] only three essays have come down to us with… Read more

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2. Riccardo Vattuone, Looking for the Invisible: Theopompus and the Roots of Historiography

2. Looking for the Invisible: Theopompus and the Roots of Historiography Riccardo Vattuone 1. Theopompus and the Historiography of the IVth Century BCE It is not only the fragmentary nature of his work that hinders a critical evaluation of Theopompus. The idiosyncratic interests of one of his most important witnesses, Athenaeus, and the deep-seated ambiguity of Polybius’ interpretation have done much to affect modern judgement,… Read more

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1. Giovanni Parmeggiani, Introduction

1. Introduction [In this on-line version, the page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the printed version ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look up references made elsewhere to the printed version of this book.] Giovanni Parmeggiani In the modern reception of ancient… Read more

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Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments The papers collected in this volume originate from two conferences held at Harvard University and at the University of Bologna in 2007 and organized by Nino Luraghi and Riccardo Vattuone. Support for the events and for a particularly long editorial process has been provided by the Loeb Fund of the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, the Magie Fund of the Department of Classics, Princeton University,… Read more

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Bibliography

Bibliography Classical Sources Greek Aelian Dilts, Mervin R., ed. 1974. Claudii Aeliani Varia Historia. Leipzig. Herodotus Hude, Karl, ed. 1927. Herodoti Historiae. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Oxford. Hesiod West, M. L., ed. 1966. Hesiod. Theogony. Oxford. Repr., 1997. Homer Allen, Thomas W., ed. 1917–1919. Odyssey. 2nd ed. Vols. Read more

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Conclusion. Affirmative and Interrogative Epics

Conclusion. Affirmative and Interrogative Epics So far, I have discussed the Greek and Sanskrit epics largely separately. In Chapters 1 and 2, I examined the ways in which the Greek poems and their Sanskrit counterparts classified themselves, and I considered the effects that the reclassification of each pair of poems, as epics, had on their subsequent interpretation. In Chapters 3 and 4, I showed that each epic’s… Read more

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4. Hearkening to Kuśa and Lava and to Nala: Poetic Monarchs on the Ideal of Dharma in the Hindu Epics

4. Hearkening to Kuśa and Lava and to Nala: Poetic Monarchs on the Ideal of Dharma in the Hindu Epics The Hindu epics differ further from their Homeric counterparts by featuring rulers who are not merely similar to poets, but actually are poets. Yet these figures are not the heroes of the Hindu epics, despite resembling these leading men in their displacement from their sovereignties. In fact,… Read more

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3. Listening to Achilles and to Odysseus: Poetic Kings on the Ideal of Kléos in the Homeric Epics

3. Listening to Achilles and to Odysseus: Poetic Kings on the Ideal of Kléos in the Homeric Epics The contrasting construals of kléos in the Iliad and the Odyssey are embodied by the poems’ bickering protagonists, Achilles and Odysseus, in the first song that Demodocus sings in Odyssey 8.72–82. In this performance, the singer does not specify the heroes’ quarrel’s source, but rather leaves it open to… Read more