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Intentional History
Spinning Time in Ancient Greece
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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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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. GREEK REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PAST
- 3. MYTH AS PAST? ON THE TEMPORAL ASPECT OF GREEK DEPICTIONS OF LEGEND
- 4. THE TROJAN WARâS RECEPTION IN EARLY GREEK LYRIC, IAMBIC AND ELEGIAC POETRY
- 5. THE GREAT RHETRA (PLUT. LYC. 6): A RETROSPECTIVE AND INTENTIONAL CONSTRUCT?
- 6. COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES, IMAGINED PAST, AND DELPHI
- 7. FISH HEADS AND MUSSEL-SHELLS: VISUALIZING GREEK IDENTITY
- 8. MEDIA FOR THESEUS, OR: THE DIFFERENT IMAGES OF THE ATHENIAN POLIS-HERO
- 9. ULTERIOR MOTIVES IN ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY: WHAT EXACTLY, AND WHY?
- 10. TRAGIC MEMORIES OF DIONYSOS
- 11. CONNECTING WITH THE PAST IN LYKOURGAN ATHENS: AN EPIGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE
- 12. INTENTIONAL HISTORY: ALEXANDER, DEMOSTHENES AND THEBES
- 13. THE DEMOS AS NARRATOR: PUBLIC HONOURS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF FUTURE AND PAST
- 14. GOD AND KING AS SYNOIKISTS: DIVINE DISPOSITION AND MONARCHIC WISHES COMBINED IN THE TRADITIONS OF CITY FOUNDATIONS FOR ALEXANDERâS AND HELLENISTIC TIMES
- 15. âTHEY THAT HELD ARKADIA.â ARKADIAN FOUNDATION MYTHS AS INTENTIONAL HISTORY IN ROMAN IMPERIAL TIMES
- 16. ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE NOMADS AND âBARBARIANâ HISTORY IN HAN CHINA
- 17. BEYOND INTENTIONAL HISTORY: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODEL OF THE IDEA OF HISTORY
- 18. CONSTRUCTING ANTIQUITY AND MODERNITY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: DISTANTIATION, ALTERITY, PROXIMITY, IMMANENCY