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Ancient Historiography on War and Empire
. Ed(S): Stoneman, Richard; Muller, Sabine; Howe, Timothy
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Description for Ancient Historiography on War and Empire
New perspectives on the genre and context of history-writing in the ancient world and its focus on war and empire. Editor(s): Stoneman, Richard; Muller, Sabine; Howe, Timothy. Num Pages: 304 pages, b/w and colour. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3D; HBAH; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 249 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 870.
In the ancient Greek-speaking world, writing about the past meant balancing the reporting of facts with shaping and guiding the political interests and behaviours of the present. Ancient Historiography on War and Empire shows the ways in which the literary genre of writing history developed to guide empires through their wars. Taking key events from the Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Macedonian and Roman ‘empires’, the 17 essays collected here analyse the way events and the accounts of those events interact. Subjects include: how Greek historians assign nearly divine honours to the Persian King; the role of the ... Read more
In the ancient Greek-speaking world, writing about the past meant balancing the reporting of facts with shaping and guiding the political interests and behaviours of the present. Ancient Historiography on War and Empire shows the ways in which the literary genre of writing history developed to guide empires through their wars. Taking key events from the Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Macedonian and Roman ‘empires’, the 17 essays collected here analyse the way events and the accounts of those events interact. Subjects include: how Greek historians assign nearly divine honours to the Persian King; the role of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxbow Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785702990
SKU
V9781785702990
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About . Ed(S): Stoneman, Richard; Muller, Sabine; Howe, Timothy
Timothy Howe is Professor of History and Ancient Studies at St. Olaf College (USA). His main research interests are in Alexander the Great, ancient Mediterranean warfare, agriculture, law, religion, trade, and, Greek and Latin epigraphy. Sabine Müller is Professor of Ancient History at Marburg University (Germany) where she specialises in ancient Near East, Greece, Macedonia and Rome including iconography and ... Read more
Reviews for Ancient Historiography on War and Empire
All of the papers are thought-provoking…
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
This is a massive, well-organised work on the historiography and history of the ancient world; as such, it makes a significant contribution to the present-day overview of historiography; the papers are erudite, well written, [...] Last but not least, it offers numerous fresh and provocative approaches to the ... Read more
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
This is a massive, well-organised work on the historiography and history of the ancient world; as such, it makes a significant contribution to the present-day overview of historiography; the papers are erudite, well written, [...] Last but not least, it offers numerous fresh and provocative approaches to the ... Read more