Clio's Cosmetics: Three Studies in Greco-Roman Literature - Brossura

Wiseman, T. P.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 190467500X ISBN 13: 9781904675006

Casa editrice: Liverpool Univ Pr, 2004

Riassunto

Clio is Muse of History, her 'cosmetics' the adornments of rhetoric. Peter Wiseman's influential book, first published in 1979 and now for the first time in paperback, concerns the writing of history during the first century B.C.E., when Rome was in process of becoming the centre of the Greek, as much as her own, literary world. Historians, trained, like all their literary contemporaries, in the schools of rhetoric, often prized elegant plausibility above the empirical objectivity we nowadays expect of them. Legend and history intermingled; history and poetry overlapped.
Wiseman's book represents a significant contribution towards an appreciation of ancient historiography in the interface between Greek and Roman culture. History is viewed here as rhetoric, as myth-making, and as poetry.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

T. P. Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Classics in the University of Exeter.

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Book by Wiseman T P

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Liverpool Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 190467500X
• ISBN 13: 9781904675006
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 209