Research Catalog

Title

How to do things with history : new approaches to ancient Greece / edited by Danielle Allen, Paul Christesen, and Paul Millett.

Publication

• New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cartledge, Paul
• Allen, Danielle S., 1971-
• Christesen, Paul, 1966-
• Millett, Paul

Description

xiii, 406 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"How to Do Things with History is a collection of essays that explores current and future approaches to the study of ancient Greek cultural history. Rather than focus directly on methodology, the essays in this volume demonstrate how some of the most productive and significant methodologies for studying ancient Greece can be employed to illuminate a range of different kinds of subject matter. These essays, which bring together the work of some of the most talented scholars in the field, are based upon papers delivered at a conference held at Cambridge University in September of 2014 in honor of Paul Cartledge's retirement from the post of A. G. Leventis Professor of Ancient Greek Culture. For the better part of four decades, Paul Cartledge has spearheaded intellectual developments in the field of Greek culture in both scholarly and public contexts. His work has combined insightful historical accounts of particular places, periods, and thinkers with a willingness to explore comparative approaches and a keen focus on methodology. Cartledge has throughout his career emphasized the analysis of practice - the study not, for instance, of the history of thought but of thinking in action and through action. The assembled essays trace the broad horizons charted by Cartledge's work: from studies of political thinking to accounts of legal and cultural practices to politically astute approaches to historiography. The contributors to this volume all take the parameters and contours of Cartledge's work, which has profoundly influenced an entire generation of scholars, as starting points for their own historical and historiographical explorations. Those parameters and contours provide a common thread that runs through and connects all of the essays while also offering sufficient freedom for individual contributors to demonstrate an array of rich and varied approaches to the study of the past."--

Subject

• To 146 B.C
• Historicism
• Civilization
• Civilization > Historiography
• Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C
• Greece > Civilization > Historiography. > To 146 B.C
• Greece

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- 1. The "Great Leap" in Early Greek Politics and Political Thought: A Comparative Perspective / , Kurt A. Raaflaub -- 2. Pericles' Utopia: A Reading of Thucydides and Plato / Emily Greenwood -- 3. How to Turn History into Scenario: Plato's Republic Book 8 on the Role of Political Office in Constitutional Change / Melissa Lane -- 4. "Cyrus appeared both great and good": Xenophon and the Performativity of Kingship / Carol Atack -- 5. Jurors and Serial Killers: Loneliness, Deliberation, and Community in Ancient Athens / Alastair J.L. Blanshard -- 6. The Sparta Game: Violence, Proportionality, Austerity, Collapse / Josiah Ober and Barry R. Weingast -- 7. Marx and Antiquity / Wilfried Nippel -- 8. Marxism and Ancient History / Kostas Vlassopoulos -- 9. Building for the State: A World-Historical Perspective / Walter Scheidel -- 10. Picturing History: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Tyrannicide in the Art of Classical Athens and Early Imperial China / Jeremy Tanner -- 11. Imaginary Intercourse: an Illustrated History of Greek Pederasty / Robin Osborne -- 12. The Boys from Cydathenaeum: Aristophanes versus Cleon Again / Edith Hall -- 13. How to Write Anti-Roman History / Tim Whitmarsh -- Afterward / Paul Cartledge.

Call Number

JFE 18-9634

ISBN

• 9780190649890
• 0190649895

LCCN

• 2018013714
• 40028430785

OCLC

1020559478

Title

How to do things with history : new approaches to ancient Greece / edited by Danielle Allen, Paul Christesen, and Paul Millett.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

To 146 B.C.

Added Author

Cartledge, Paul, honouree.

Allen, Danielle S., 1971- editor.

Christesen, Paul, 1966- editor.

Millett, Paul, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: How to do things with history New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018 9780190649906 (DLC) 2018030877

Other Standard Identifier

40028430785

Research Call Number

JFE 18-9634