Polis Histories, Collective Memories and the Greek World

Polis Histories, Collective Memories and the Greek World

Thomas, Rosalind (University of Oxford)

Cambridge University Press

04/2019

482

Dura

Inglês

9781107193581

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The first comprehensive re-assessment of the phenomenon of Greek 'local history-writing', which emerged as a popular and important form of history in the late classical and early Hellenistic periods. Argues that these works were central to creating political and cultural identity in a changing and expanding Greek world.
1. What are polis histories? What are local histories? Popular history and its audiences; 2. Tales for the telling: ' '; 3. Ethnography for the Greeks? The polis as a new subject for historiography; 4. Fostering the community: accumulative historiography; 5. Origins, foundations and ethnicity: Greeks and non-Greeks; 6. Saving the city: political history or paradoxa? Miletus and Lesbos; 7. Polis in flux: dislocation and disenfranchisement in Samos; 8. Athenian polis histories; 9. The Aristotelian politeiai and local histories; 10. Polis and island histories and the late Classical and Hellenistic world: a new Hellenism?
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