Hans-Joachim Gehrke (Germany Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg)

The Greeks and Their Histories

Übersetzer: Geuss, Raymond

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Like every society, the Greek communities needed a unifying concept of their past, an 'intentional history'. In direct interaction with poets, they formed an aesthetic network in which myths were considered as historical events. This volume considers how Greeks' histories were consciously employed to help shape political and social realities.

Produktdetails

• Classical Scholarship in Translation
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781316519783
• ISBN-10: 1316519783
• Artikelnr.: 65690371

Autorenporträt

HANS-JOACHIM GEHRKE is Professor emeritus of Ancient History at the University of Freiburg (Breisgau). He was Professor and Visiting Scholar at several German and European Universities and President of the German Archaeological Institute. He is the editor of Making Civilisations (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. The locus of intentional history: reference-group
producers
media; 2. Greek myths as a history of the Greeks: motifs
forms
structures; 3. Greek historiography between past and present; 4. Greek historiography between fiction and fact; Concluding perspectives.