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Literary texts and the Greek historian /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pelling, C. B. R.
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Subjects:
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Literature and history > Greece > History.
History, Ancient > Historiography.
Historiography > Greece > History.
Greece > Historiography.
Literature and history > Greece.
Littérature grecque > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et histoire > Grèce > Histoire.
Histoire ancienne > Historiographie.
Historiographie > Grèce > Histoire.
Grèce > Historiographie.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • A culture of rhetoric
  • Rhetoric and history (415 BC)
  • How far would they go? Plutarch on Nicias and Alcibiades
  • Rhetoric and history II: Platnea (431-27 BC)
  • Explaining the war
  • Thucydides' speeches
  • 'You cannot be serious': approaching Aristophanes
  • Aristophanes' Acharnians (425 BC)
  • Tragedy and ideology
  • Lysistrata and others: constructing gender
  • Conclusions: texts, audiences, truth.