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Author:   John Marincola (Leon Golden Professor of Classics, Florida State University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 21.20cm
Weight:   0.632kg
ISBN:  

9780199233502

ISBN 10:   0199233500
Pages:   510
Publication Date:   24 March 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction I. Constructing the Past: Myth, Memory and History 1: Nicole Loraux: Thucydides is Not a Colleague 2: Hans-Joachim Gehrke: Myth, History, Politics - Ancient and Modern 3: Rosalind Thomas: Genealogy and the Genealogists 4: Guido Schepens: Some Aspects of Source Theory in Greek Historiography 5: Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg: The Tradition about Early Rome and Oral History 6: Dieter Timpe: Memoria and Historiography at Rome 7: T. J. Cornell: Etruscan Historiography II. Rhetoric, Truth, and Falsehood 8: P. A. Brunt: Cicero and Historiography 9: A. J. Woodman: Cicero and the Writing of History 10: T. J. Luce: Ancient Views on the Causes of Bias in Historical Writing 11: T. P. Wiseman: Lying Historians: Seven Types of Mendacity 12: Emilio Gabba: True History and False History in Classical Antiquity III. History and Poetry 13: Luciano Canfora: The Historical 'Cycle' 14: F. W. Walbank: History and Tragedy 15: Hermann Funke: Poetry and Historiography

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<br> This collection of Oxford Readings will furnish a valuable resource for both students and specialists of classical historiography, especially as it makes available several foreign language articles in English for the first time that have not received the attention they clearly deserve. --David Driscoll, Bryn Mawr Classical Review<p><br>

This collection of Oxford Readings will furnish a valuable resource for both students and specialists of classical historiography, especially as it makes available several foreign language articles in English for the first time that have not received the attention they clearly deserve. David Driscoll, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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John Marincola is Leon Golden Professor of Classics, Florida State University

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