Authority and tradition in ancient historiography /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=53735 |
Table of Contents:
- The scope and subject of the book
- Authority
- Tradition
- History's place and audience
- The greatness of the subject
- Decisions and dreams
- Dedications and the desires of friends
- Glory and renown
- Eyes, ears and contemporary history
- Closed societies and privileged access
- Improving the past
- Myth and history
- The importance of character
- Experience
- Effort
- Impartiality
- Praise and self-praise
- Person and perspective
- Strategies of self-presentation
- The uses of polemic
- Polemic and self-definition
- Continuity and culmination
- App. I. Table of historians
- App. II. Name and nationality
- App. III. Isocrates on autopsy and inquiry?
- App. IV. Variant versions.