Broschiertes Buch

Truth and History in the Ancient World

Pluralising the Past

Herausgeber: Hau, Lisa; Ruffell, Ian

Beschreibung

This collection of essays investigates histories in the ancient world and the extent to which the producers and consumers of those histories believed them to be true. Beginning with comparisons between historiography and aspects of belief in Greek tragedy, chapters include discussions of historiography through the works of Herodotus, Xenop

Autor

Lisa Irene Hau is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow, UK. She has published articles on Greek historiography, moralising and narrative technique, and she is working on a book on moral didacticism in Greek historiography. She is co-editor of Beyond the Battlefields: New Perspectives on Warfare and Society in the Graeco-Roman World (2008). Ian Ruffell is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is author of Politics and Anti-Realism in Athenian Old Comedy: the Art of the Impossible (2011) and Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound (2012).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780367871628
• ISBN-10: 0367871629
• Artikelnr.: 58483514