Making Time for the Past
Local History and the Polis
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:7th Jul '11
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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 local history into their proper cultural, as well as historiographical, context. * Frances Pownall, The Classical Review *
an extremely thoughtful account, laden with sources and anecdotal evidence * Hans Beck, Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada *
ISBN: 9780199694983
Dimensions: 233mm x 155mm x 24mm
Weight: 652g
424 pages