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ORIGINS OF THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MODERN GREEK SCIENCE

Nuncius, 2008
The purpose of the paper is to examine how Greek historians account for the presence of modern scientific ideas in the intellectual environment of eighteenth-century Greek-speaking society. It will also discuss the function of the history of modern Greek science in the context of Greek national historiography.
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historiography, Greek

2015
Abstract Historiography, the critical study of the past, emerged gradually in the Greek world, first with the rationalizing of the myths, then in the fundamental revolution of Herodotus and Thucydides in the second half of the fifth century bc.
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Greek Historiography

1994
Abstract The ancient Greek achievement in the writing of history set the standard for all time. But the nature of that achievement looks increasingly problematic in the light of recent work on such topics as literacy, oratlity, rhetoric, narrative technique, and the invention of tradition. This book contributes to the understanding of
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Historiography of Greek Religious Engravings

Observatory of Culture, 2022
The article presents an overview of the literature on the history of the study of Greek religious engravings. For the first time, there is collected information about the Greek engravings, from the first mentions of them by travelers, to scientific works — monographs, articles, catalogs of collections and exhibitions dedicated to this rare phenomenon ...
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A companion to greek and roman historiography

Revista de Estudos Filosóficos e Históricos da Antiguidade, 2012
A recente coleção Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World, que conta no começo de 2009 com 23 volumes publicados, vem se juntar às outras coleções de ensaios introdutórios publicadas por editoras britânicas nas últimas décadas, em especial a Oxford Companions e a Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics.
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Walter Benjamin and Greek Historiography

2020
Un primo resoconto dell'influenza della storiografia greca sullo sviluppo della filosofia della storia di Benjamin, con particolare attenzione alla fase finale della produzione del filosofo tedesco.
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Ephorus of Cyme and Greek Historiography

2023
Ephorus of Cyme, who lived in the fourth century BC, is one of the most important historians of antiquity whose work has not survived and, according to Polybius, was the first to have written a universal history. His lost Histories are known from numerous 'fragments', that is, quotations by later authors such as Polybius, Diodorus, Strabo and Plutarch,
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Nola and the historiography of Greek vases

Journal of the History of Collections, 2007
Cemeteries that encircled the Campanian town of Nola furnished many of the ancient vases most highly sought after by eighteenth-century collectors. Attracted by the exceptional quality of the glazes on what was later recognized as Attic pottery, antiquaries looked to the figured scenes for reflections of lost masterpieces of ancient Greek painting ...
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Theopompus and Classical Greek Historiography

History and Theory, 1970
Piero Treves, in his article on Greek Historiography in the Oxford Classical Dictionary (Oxford, 1949), describes Theopompus' history of the age of Philip as "the crowning achievement of classical and the forerunner of Hellenistic historiography." The first part of this judgment may well occasion some surprise, for most of us are likely to agree with R.
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Continuity in Modern Greek Historiography

Abstract Although the memory of classical Greece was never truly extinguished, its perpetuation was largely in the hands of a small group of Byzantine scholars throughout the Middle Ages. It was only toward the end of the eighteenth century that some Greek intellectuals began to subscribe to a belief in what might be termed ...
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