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Making Time for the Past

Local History and the Polis

Katherine Clarke author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:20th Mar '08

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This book has two main and connected themes - the conception and articulation of time in the Greek world and the creation of history, especially in the context of the Greek city. Both how time is expressed and how the past is presented have often been seen as reflections of society. By looking at the construction of the past through the medium of local historiography, where we can view these issues in the relatively restricted world of individual city-states, we can gain a clearer insight into how different versions of the past and different constructions of time were offered to the community for approval. In this way, the citizens were able to negotiate time past and indeed their own history, and thereby to express their values and aspirations.

This is a groundbreaking book which sets the works of identity in the Greek world. This is a groundbreaking book which sets the works of of local history into their proper cultural, as well as historiographical, context * Frances Pownall, The Classical Review *
The originality of Katherine Clarke's rich book, Making Time for the Past consists in bringing together the everyday life of the Polis with the construction of the historical past * Richard Seaford, Times Literary Supplement *
an extremely thoughtful account, laden with sources and anecdotal evidence * Hans Beck, Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada *
There is something for everyone in this book. It redefines how we think about history. * Antony Keen, Acta Classica *

ISBN: 9780199291083

Dimensions: 241mm x 162mm x 26mm

Weight: 788g

432 pages