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Auteur(s) : Hau, Lisa Irene
Titre(s) : Moral history from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus [Texte imprimé] / Lisa Irene Hau
Publication : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016
Description matérielle : viii, 312 pages ; 25 cm
Comprend : Hellenistic historiography. Polybius ; Diodorus Siculus ; Fragmentary Hellenistic
historiography ; Classical historiography. Herodotus ; Thucydides ; Xenophon, Hellenica
; Fragmentary classical historiography.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-298) and indexes
Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Hau argues that a driving
force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about
the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek
writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across. Hau also shows
how moral didacticism was an integral part of the writing of history from its inception
in the 5th century BC, how it developed over the next 500 years in parallel with the
development of historiography as a genre and how the moral messages on display remained
surprisingly stable across this period. For the ancient Greek historiographers, moral
didacticism was a way of making sense of the past and making it relevant to the present;
but this does not mean that they falsified events: truth and morality were compatible
and synergistic ends
Sujet(s) : Historiographie -- Aspect moral -- Antiquité
Historiographie -- Grèce -- Antiquité
Conditions morales -- Grèce -- Antiquité
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781474411073. - ISBN 147441107X. - ISBN 9781474411080 (erroné). - ISBN 9781474411097
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45125723j
Notice n° :
FRBNF45125723
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)