Polis histories, collective memories and the Greek world /
Greek 'local histories,' better called polis and island histories, have usually been seen as the poor relation of mainstream 'great' Greek historiography, and yet they were demonstrably popular and extremely numerous from the late Classical period into the Hellenistic. The extens...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- What are polis histories? what are local histories? popular history and its audiences
- Tales for the telling
- Ethnography for the Greeks: the polis as a new subject for historiography
- Fostering the community: accumulative historiography
- Origins, foundations and ethnicity: Greeks and non-Greeks
- Saving the city: political history or paradoxa? Miletus and Lesbos
- Polis in flux: dislocation and disenfranchisement in Samos
- Athenian polis histories
- The Aristotelian politeiai and local histories
- Polis and island histories and the late classical and hellenistic world: a new Hellenism?
- Appendix 1. Miletus
- Appendix 2. Polis, island and ethnos historians dated to the fourth century
- Appendix 3. Register of polis, island and ethnos histories: Jacoby's local histories.