Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians (Edinburgh Leventis Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748643966 ISBN 13: 9780748643967

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2012

Synopsis

This volume in The Edinburgh Leventis Studies series collects the papers presented at the sixth A. G. Leventis conference organised under the auspices of the Department of Classics at the University of Edinburgh. As with earlier volumes, it engages with new research and new approaches to the Greek past, and brings the fruits of that research to a wider audience. Although Greek historians were fundamental in the enterprise of preserving the memory of great deeds in antiquity, they were not alone in their interest in the past. The Greeks themselves, quite apart from their historians and in a variety of non-historiographical media, were constantly creating pasts for themselves that answered to the needs - political, social, moral and even religious - of their society. In this volume eighteen scholars discuss the variety of ways in which the Greeks constructed de-constructed, engaged with, alluded to, and relied on their pasts whether it was in the poetry of Homer, in the victory odes of Pindar, in tragedy and comedy on the Athenian stage, in their pictorial art, in their political assemblies, or in their religious practices. What emerges is a comprehensive overview of the importance of and presence of the past at every level of Greek society.
In the final chapter the three discussants present at the conference (Simon Goldhill, Christopher Pelling and Suzanne Saïd) survey the contributions to the volume, summarise its overall contributions as well as indicate new directions that further scholarship might follow.

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About the Author:

John Marincola is Leon Golden Professor of Classics at the The Florida State University Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is Senior lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh Calum Maciver is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is Senior lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh Calum Maciver is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0748643966
• ISBN 13: 9780748643967
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Marincola John, Llewellyn-Jones Lloyd, Maciver Calum