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The Limits of Historiography
Genre and Narrative in Ancient Historical Texts
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Christina Kraus
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Edited by:
Chris(tina) Shuttleworth Kraus
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Compiled by:
Christopher Pelling
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
1999
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This volume explores the intersection between historiography and related genres in antiquity. Papers cover the geographical range from China through the near east to the classical period in the Mediterranean. Topics addressed include the place in ancient Chinese historiography of philosophical argument; the nature and kind of historical text in the Hittite, Babylonian, Persian and biblical periods, including (for the first time) a full transliteration and translation of the Old Hittite story of Anum-hirbi and Zalpa, and a new interpretation of the Darius inscription at Behistun; and the relation of rhetorical stratagems and theory to Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus. Contributors also consider the relationship between texts, including the war narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides, and the propriety of different schemes of generic classification.
Author / Editor information
Christina Shuttleworth Kraus, Ph.D. (1988) in Classical Philology, Harvard University, is CUF Lecturer in the University of Oxford and Munro Fellow and Tutor in Classical Languages and Literature at Oriel College, Oxford. She has published books and papers on Roman historiography and on Greek tragic narrative, and is working on a commentary on Caesar, De bello gallico VII.
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'...this is an extremely rich volume. It offers not only provocative and important studies of individual historians, but a range of ideas on narrative technique which may productively be applied in our readings of other historical texts.'
Neville Morley, The Classical Review, 2000.
Neville Morley, The Classical Review, 2000.
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July 17, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9789004351295
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366
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Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in classics, biblical studies, Near Eastern or Chinese studies, narratology, historiography, and genre, as well as academic libraries and institutes.
