Pushing the boundaries of Historia. (2018)
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- Book
- Title:
- Pushing the boundaries of Historia. (2018)
- Main Title:
- Pushing the boundaries of Historia
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Mary C. English and Lee M. Fratantuono.
- Editors:
- English, Mary C
Fratantuono, Lee, 1973- - Contents:
- List of contributors Preface and acknowledgments Introduction MARY C. ENGLISH AND LEE M. FRATANTUONO PART I Herodotean narratives and cross- cultural comparisons 1. Different ways of saying historia in the prose of Herodotus and Thucydides GREGORY NAGY 2. Tyrants’ spectacles in Herodotus DEBORAH BOEDEKER 3. Thinking with Sima Qian’s Shiji about Herodotus’ fragmented narrative of the story of Miltiades THOMAS R. MARTIN 4. Settling family feuds: Lysias 1 and Herodotus’ Lydians NINA C. COPPOLINO 5. East and West in the Histories of Herodotus and Tacitus TIMOTHY JOSEPH PART II Historia and the ancient world 6. Thucydides’ use of Homer in his Archaeology MARY EBBOTT 7. Models of gift- exchange and practices of hostage- giving and hostage- taking in classical Persian poetry OLGA M. DAVIDSON 8. Michael Ventris, Sterling Dow, and the initial reception of the decipherment of Linear B STEPHEN TRACY 9. Citizen scholarship in the Homer Multitext project 133 NEEL SMITH PART III The development and reception of historical exempla 145 10. Othryadas: The development of a historical and literary exemplum ALISSA VAILLANCOURT AND ANDREW G. SCOTT 11 No peeking! Athene and Alcibiades JOSEPH FALAKY NAGY 12. A furious fury: Virgil’s Camilla, Livy’s Camillus, and the reconciliations of Juno LEE M. FRATANTUONO 13. Ovid’s autobiography (Tr . 4.10): Poetic identity and immortality in the poetry of exile MATTHEW M. MCGOWAN 14. Billy Collins as a modern- day Ovid: An Ovidian reading of Collins’List of contributors Preface and acknowledgments Introduction MARY C. ENGLISH AND LEE M. FRATANTUONO PART I Herodotean narratives and cross- cultural comparisons 1. Different ways of saying historia in the prose of Herodotus and Thucydides GREGORY NAGY 2. Tyrants’ spectacles in Herodotus DEBORAH BOEDEKER 3. Thinking with Sima Qian’s Shiji about Herodotus’ fragmented narrative of the story of Miltiades THOMAS R. MARTIN 4. Settling family feuds: Lysias 1 and Herodotus’ Lydians NINA C. COPPOLINO 5. East and West in the Histories of Herodotus and Tacitus TIMOTHY JOSEPH PART II Historia and the ancient world 6. Thucydides’ use of Homer in his Archaeology MARY EBBOTT 7. Models of gift- exchange and practices of hostage- giving and hostage- taking in classical Persian poetry OLGA M. DAVIDSON 8. Michael Ventris, Sterling Dow, and the initial reception of the decipherment of Linear B STEPHEN TRACY 9. Citizen scholarship in the Homer Multitext project 133 NEEL SMITH PART III The development and reception of historical exempla 145 10. Othryadas: The development of a historical and literary exemplum ALISSA VAILLANCOURT AND ANDREW G. SCOTT 11 No peeking! Athene and Alcibiades JOSEPH FALAKY NAGY 12. A furious fury: Virgil’s Camilla, Livy’s Camillus, and the reconciliations of Juno LEE M. FRATANTUONO 13. Ovid’s autobiography (Tr . 4.10): Poetic identity and immortality in the poetry of exile MATTHEW M. MCGOWAN 14. Billy Collins as a modern- day Ovid: An Ovidian reading of Collins’ Ballistics JILL A. COYLE PART IV Fury, honor, and historia : Confl ict and struggle in the Greek and Roman imaginations 15. Sound effects: Aural aspects of Euripides’ Bacchae KATIE LAMBERTO 16. Evander’s love of gore and bloodshed in Aeneid 8 JAMES J. O’HARA 17. A disquiet follows my soul: Civil war in Livy Book I MARK J. B. WRIGHT 18. Saint Pilate and the conversion of Tiberius PAUL F. BURKE 19. Julius Caesar in the 1960s: Jerome Kilty’s stage adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s The Ides of March MARY C. ENGLISH 20. Edward Robinson’s plaster casts and the battle for the Museum of Fine Arts ELLEN E. PERRY … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 938.0072
Civilization, Classical
Classical antiquities
Classical philology
Historiography - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781351694995
9781351695008
9781351694988
9781315171487 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781138046320
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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