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GREEK LOCAL HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ITS AUDIENCES

The Classical Quarterly, 2017
In the ninth book of his Ἀτθίς the Athenian historian and religious expert Philochorus related an omen about which he had himself been consulted in the late fourth centuryb.c.e.(FGrHist328 F 67).When this year was done and the next was beginning, there occurred on the Acropolis the following prodigy: a female dog, having entered the temple of Athena ...
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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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historiography, Greek

2015
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.
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Greek Historiography

2013
The writing of history in ancient Greece, an activity which occurred over a period of one thousand years (500 bce–500 ce), is a subject of great interest to modern scholars for a number of reasons. First, the very term “history” derives from the Greek word historiê (“inquiry”) which Herodotus uses to describe his work, and the subject of historical ...
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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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