Truth and history in the ancient world : pluralising the past
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Ruffell, Ian,
, [HerausgeberIn]
Hau, Lisa Irene , [HerausgeberIn] |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York, NY :
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group,
2017.
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| Umfang/Format: |
vi, 288 pages. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Routledge studies in ancient history
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| Online Zugang: |
Online available (Ebook Central) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction / Ian Ruffell and Lisa Irene Hau
- The challenging abundance of the past : pluralising and reducing in Pindar's victory songs / Jan R. Stenger
- Tragedy and fictionality / Ian Ruffell
- Seventeen types of ambiguity in Euripides' Helen / Matthew Wright
- Multiple ways to access the past : the myth of Oedipus, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Herodotus' Histories / Catherine Darbo-Peschanski
- Fictional truth and factual truth in Herodotus / Anthony Ellis
- Se non è vero : on the use of untrue stories in Herodotus / Katharina Wesselmann
- Intertextuality and plural truths in Xenophon's historical narrative / Emily Baragwanath
- Ctesias of Cnidus : poet, novelist or historian? / Alexander Meeus
- The aesthetics of truth : narrative and historical hermeneutics in Polybius' Histories / Nicolas Wiater
- Truth and moralising : the twin aims of the Hellenistic historiographers / Lisa Irene Hau
- Alexander and the Amazonian queen : truth and fiction / Joseph Roisman
- Lucian on truth and lies in ancient historiography : the theory and its limits / Melina Tamiolaki.
