Polis histories, collective memories and the Greek world / Rosalind Thomas, University of Oxford.
Polis histories, collective memories and the Greek world / Rosalind Thomas, University of Oxford.
Polis histories, collective memories and the Greek world / Rosalind Thomas, University of Oxford.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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G 2019/3572
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English
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xii, 490 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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What are polis histories? what are local histories? popular history and its audiences -- Tales for the telling -- Ethnography for the Greeks: the polis as a new subject for historiography -- Fostering the community: accumulative historiography -- Origins, foundations and ethnicity: Greeks and non-Gr...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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England
Date Published
2019.
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Greek 'local histories', better called polis and island histories, have usually been seen as the poor relation of mainstream 'great' Greek historiography, and yet they were demonstrably popular and extremely numerous from the late Classical period into the Hellenistic. The extensive fragments and testimonia were collected by Felix Jacoby and have b...
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Polis histories, collective memories and the Greek world / Rosalind Thomas, University of Oxford.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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G 2019/3572
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74VKVeJ4goZg
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1107193583 hardcover
9781107193581 hardcover
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938.0072
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991024253485602626
