The limits of historiography: genre and narrative in ancient historical texts
Social pleasures in early Chinese historiography and philosophy / David Schaberg -- Knowledge and skepticism in ancient Chinese historiography / Wai-Yee Li -- Local versus general history in Old Hittite historiography / Alexander Uchitel -- Commemoration, writing, and genre in ancient Mesopotamia /...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Leiden [u.a.]
Brill
1999
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| In: |
Mnemosyne <Leiden> / Supplementum (191)
Year: 1999 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Series/Journal: | Mnemosyne <Leiden> / Supplementum
191 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Historiography
/ Geschichte Anfänge-500
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| IxTheo Classification: | BC Ancient Orient; religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Literary Form History To 1500 B History, Ancient Historiography B Literary genre B Ancient Orient B Narration (Rhetoric) History To 1500 B Historical studies |
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| Summary: | Social pleasures in early Chinese historiography and philosophy / David Schaberg -- Knowledge and skepticism in ancient Chinese historiography / Wai-Yee Li -- Local versus general history in Old Hittite historiography / Alexander Uchitel -- Commemoration, writing, and genre in ancient Mesopotamia / Piotr Michalowski -- The Persian kings and history / Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg -- History, historiography, and the use of the past in the Hebrew Bible / Thomas M. Bolin -- Thucydides' Persian wars / Timothy Rood -- Guiding metaphor and narrative point of view in Livy's Ab urbe condita / Mary Jaeger -- Tacitus' Histories and the theory of deliberative oratory / David S. Levene -- Jugurthine disorder / Christina S. Kraus -- Universal perspectives in historiography / Katherine Clarke -- Genre, convention, and innovation in Greco-Roman historiography / John Marincola -- Epilogue / Christopher Pelling |
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben |
| ISBN: | 9004106707 |