Theopompus The Historian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theopompus The Historian write by Gordon Spencer Shrimpton. This book was released on 1991. Theopompus The Historian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Theopompus the Historian, Gordon Shrimpton critically examines the direct evidence concerning the life and lost works of Theopompus of Chios, the fourth-century BC historian and orator, providing the first comprehensive study of the man and his work. In a translation of the fragments (the surviving citations of Theopompus' work) and of the testimonies (the references made to Theopompus' work by other writers), he makes available all that remains of Theopompus' writings.
Theopompus of Chios
Theopompus of Chios - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theopompus of Chios write by Michael Attyah Flower. This book was released on 1997. Theopompus of Chios available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theopompus of Chios was one of the most important ancient Greek historians of the fourth century BC. Although his work has survived only in fragments, it is still a rich and vital source of information for Greek political, social, and intellectual history during the age of Philip of Macedon. This book explores both Theopompus's historical method and the intellectual milieu in which he worked, while placing the fragments themselves in "context" by examining where and why they are cited by later authors. Flower's illuminating and original study leads up to some important new conclusions about historical writing in the fourth century BC--that there was no so-called Isocratean school of rhetorical history; that Theopompus used moral explanations typical of Greek thought to account for historical changes; and that oral tradition, as opposed to rhetorical invention, was still vibrant in the fourth century. All Greek in the book is translated.
Lessons from the Past
Lessons from the Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lessons from the Past write by Frances Anne Pownall. This book was released on 2010-02-09. Lessons from the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Theopompus The Historian
Theopompus The Historian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theopompus The Historian write by Gordon S. Shrimpton. This book was released on 1991-04-01. Theopompus The Historian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theopompus was primarily known in antiquity for his historical works, which included an Epitome of Herodotus; Hellenica, a twelve-volume history of Greece; and the fifty-eight volume Philippica, which focused mainly on the career of Philip II of Macedon. All of Theopompus' works were lost by late antiquity except fifty-three volumes of the Philippica, which survived into Byzantine times only to disappear by perhaps the tenth century. Before these works were lost, geographers, lexicographers, biographers, collectors of anecdotes, and later historians all quoted Theopompus in their writings and many critics of historical style commented on Theopompus' work. Concentrating on the Hellenica and the Philippica, Shrimpton studies the fragments and testimonies to reveal what can be gleaned about the scope and content of Theopompus' two major works. He deals systematically with the problems of interpretation and makes clear the methodological background of his reconstructions and evaluations, furnishing the basis for further methodological debate. Theopompus' moral and political views are discussed, as are his treatment of two of the most important figures of the middle of the fourth century BC, Philip and Demosthenes. In addition, Shrimpton provides a comprehensive index of the proper names found in the fragments and reassesses the authorship of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, suggesting that it is most plausibly identified with Cratippus.
Dionysius and The History of Archaic Rome
Dionysius and The History of Archaic Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dionysius and The History of Archaic Rome write by Emilio Gabba. This book was released on 1991. Dionysius and The History of Archaic Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The History of Archaic Rome, Dionysius purposely viewed Roman history as an embodiment of all that was best in Greek culture. Gabba places Dionysius's remarkable thesis in its cultural context, comparing this author with other ancient historians and evaluating Dionysius's treatment of his sources. In truth, the last decades B.C. made the historian's task an enormous challenge. On the one hand, the ancient writers knew Rome to be the greatest empire the world had seen, seemingly impregnable in military power and still capable of expansion. On the other hand, they were acutely aware that it recently had barely survived half a century of civil strife. Gabba recalls to us how little was confidently known of Rome's actual origins in an illuminating examination of Dionysius's methodology as a historian.
