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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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The History of Greek and Roman Historiography

2021
The development of Greek and Roman historiography is difficult to describe. So many ancient histories are lost and those that survive are hardly representative. In this thesis I argue that despite these difficulties some historiographical trends remain discernible, and examine three such fundamental changes to the ancient historian’s craft.
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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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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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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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Enargeia and the Spectator in Greek Historiography

Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-), 1993
Lucian'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, 2021
Dilek Özkan
exaly  

Western Greek Historiography

2007
General survey about Western Greek Historiography (Hippys, Antiochus, Philistus, Timaeus), and its relevance in Ancient Greek culture. A survey on Western Greek Historiography from the beginnings to Diodorus of Siciliy (V-I Cent.B.C.). The author outilnes the topics of 'Western Historians' in Classical Tradition.
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