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Zusatztext
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The contributions assembled in this volume study the social function and functioning of notions and ideas about the past held by groups and individuals, with a special focus on ancient Greece but including comparative contributions on early China and on the function of the classical past in modern European culture. Special attention is devoted to the past as a foundation for collective identities and to the ways in which the goals and needs of specific groups impacted its representation and transmission. Contributions range in time from the archaic age to the Roman Empire, covering aspects such as the representation of the past in visual arts, the function of myth and its representation in literary and visual genres, the relationship of historiography to social memory, and the way that the past features in Greek religion. Monuments, literary texts, inscriptions are investigated in order to reconstruct the rich texture of Greek social memory and its development over time.
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Autorenportrait
- Lin Foxhall, Professor of Greek Archaeology and History, University of Leicester. Professor Foxhall has published extensively on gender in classical antiquity, as well as on agriculture and the ancient economy. She has written Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece: Seeking the Ancient Economy (Oxford 2007) and co-edited Greek Law in its Political Setting: Justification not Justice (Oxford 1996), Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition (London 1998) and When Men were Men: Masculinity, Power and Identity in Classical Antiquity (London 1998).
Detailansicht
Intentional History
Spinning Time in Ancient Greek
ISBN/EAN: 9783515096836
Umbreit-Nr.: 1109289
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 360 S., 17 s/w Illustr., 17 s/w Fotos
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 30.06.2010
Auflage: 1/2010