Populism and Demagogy in the late fifth century and the political thought of Thucydides
December 2021
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Conference paper
Historical consciousness and the 'aitiology' in Greece
June 2019
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Chapter
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Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World
This chapter examines the phenomenon of ‘aetiology’ in Greek formal historiography, particularly Herodotus, and in the more popular manifestations of historical consciousness to be found in various polis and island histories (‘local histories’), arguing that these have roots in local popular and cultic explanations. Though aitia and the discussion of ‘causes’ in these contexts are often taken to be a particularly Hellenistic and learned interest, they are very common in Herodotus and in the fragments of local histories which must relate to oral traditions – and they are often highly entertaining. The author examines whether there are differences of attitude and approach between Herodotus and the aitia of local histories, as well as the relation of these aitia to the wider and more sophisticated search for cause and causation in Greek historiography. These aetiologies also raise questions about the relation of present to past, the sense of continuity of custom, and about the invention of tradition.
SBTMR
Polis Histories, Collective Memories and the Greek World
Truth and authority in Herodotus’ narrative: false stories and true stories
March 2018
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Chapter
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Herodotus - narrator, scientist, historian
SBTMR
Thucydides and his intellectual milieu
March 2017
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides
The chapter examines Thucydides’ intellectual milieu, concentrating on medical theories of the time, rhetoric, and especially the rhetorical use of theories of justice and self-interest. It examines the account of the Plague and the impossibility of isolating a cause, akribeia as a wider aim of medical writers, and Thucydides’ familiarity with intellectual theories, which he then supersedes. Finally, it examines aspects of the presentation of rhetoric and its effects: it focuses on Thucydides’ Plataean Debate and the claims made to justice, law, and convention, comparing Antiphon and Thrasymachus’ theories of justice and Thucydides’ possible contribution to this debate.
Performance, audience participation and the Dynamics of the Fourth-Century Assembly and Jury-Courts of Athens
May 2016
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Die Athenische Demokratie Im 4. Jahrhundert Zwischen Modernisierung und Tradition
From the contents:0Claudia Tiersch: Die Athenische Demo- kratie im 4. Jh. v.
Performance, audience participation and the dynamics of the fourth-century assembly and jury-courts of Athens
May 2016
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Chapter
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Die Athenische Demokratie im 4. Jahrhundert Zwischen Modernisierung und Tradition
Patterns of the Past
October 2014
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Book
The Greek Polis and the Tradition of Polis History: Local History, Chronicles, and the Patterning of the Past
October 2014
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Chapter
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Patterns of the Past: Epitedeumata in the Greek Tradition
In this volume, an international group of leading academics undertake an examination of epitēdeumata ('way of life') in Greek history, looking at cultural practices as acts which relate meaningfully to perceived sequences of past acts.
History
Theopompus and the Tradition of Greek Paideutic History
October 2014
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Chapter
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Patterns of the Past Epitedeumata in the Greek Tradition
In this volume, an international group of leading academics undertake an examination of epitēdeumata ('way of life') in Greek history, looking at cultural practices as acts which relate meaningfully to perceived sequences of past acts.
History
Local history, polis history, and the politics of place
September 2014
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Chapter
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Between Thucydides and Polybius: The Golden Age of Historiography
Herodotus and Eastern myths and Logoi: Deioces the Mede and Pythius the Lydian
January 2012
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Chapter
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Myth, Truth and Narrative in Herodotus
Pindar's "Difficulty" and the performance of epinician poetry: some suggestions from ethnography
January 2012
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Chapter
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Reading the Victory Ode
Review of Brill's New Jacoby On-line
January 2012
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Journal article
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Mnemosyne: a journal of classical studies
Thucydides and Social Change: between Akribeia and Universality’
May 2011
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Chapter
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The Western Time of Ancient History
Distinguished European scholars discuss the conceptual and temporal frames through which modern Western historiography has linked itself to classical antiquity.
History
Herodotus' Persian Ethnography
January 2011
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Chapter
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Herodot und das Persische Reich
"And you the demos made an uproar": Performance, mass audience and text in the Athenian Democracy
January 2011
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Chapter
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Literacy, Orality and Religion
Review of Pébarthe, Cité, democratie et écriture. Histoire de l'alphabeetisation d'Athenes a l'époque classique
January 2010
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Journal article
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Klio: Beitraege zur Alten Geschichte
Writing, Reading, public and private ‘literacies’: functional literacy and democratic literacy in Greece
February 2009
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Chapter
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Ancient literacies
This timely volume attempts to formulate new interesting ways of talking about the entire concept of literacy in the ancient world--literacy not in the sense of ...
History
The Origins of Western Literacy. Literacy in Ancient Greece and Rome.