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Lessons from the Past: The Moral Use of History in Fourth-Century Prose

Name: Lessons from the Past: The Moral Use of History in Fourth-Century Prose
ISBN: 9780472113279

Frances Anne Pownall

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Because of the didactic nature of the historical genre, many scholars ancient and modern have seen connections between history and rhetoric. So far, discussion has centered on fifth-century authors -- Herodotus and Thucydides, along with the sophists and early philosophers. Pownall extends the focus of this discussion into an important period. By focusing on key intellectuals and historians of the fourth century (Plato and the major historians -- Xenophon, Ephorus, and Theopompus), she examines how these prose writers created an aristocratic version of the past as an alternative to the democratic version of the oratorical tradition. Frances Pownall is Professor of History and Classics, University of Alberta.

种类:

Fiction

年:

2003

出版社:

University of Michigan Press

语言:

english

页:

216

ISBN 10:

0472113275