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Nola and the historiography of Greek vases
Journal of the History of Collections, 2007Cemeteries 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, 1970Piero 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 ...openaire +1 more source
Enargeia and the Spectator in Greek Historiography
Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-), 1993Lucian's ideal historian is like the sculptor Phidias both in the sense that he gives shape to the "raw material" (hyle) of history, and in the sense that his work has a powerful visual appeal for the reader. "[The historian] has to organize his facts (ta pepragmena) skillfully," Lucian stresses, "and express them as vividly (enargestata) as he can ...
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The Greek War of Independence in Turkish historiography
Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 2021Dilek Özkan
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