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Greeks and Their Histories : Myth, History, and Society by Hans-Joachim Gehrke (2022, Hardcover)

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101316519783

ISBN-139781316519783

eBay Product ID (ePID)3057256965

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Book TitleGreeks and Their Histories : Myth, History, and Society

Number of Pages180 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAncient / General, Europe / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece)

Publication Year2022

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorHans-Joachim Gehrke

Book SeriesClassical Scholarship in Translation Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

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Preface byGrethlein, Jonas

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal938.0072

Table Of ContentIntroduction; 1. The locus of intentional history: reference-group - producers - media; 2. Greek myths as a history of the Greeks: motifs - forms - structures; 3. Greek historiography between past and present; 4. Greek historiography between fiction and fact; Concluding perspectives.

SynopsisIn this concise but stimulating book on history and Greek culture, Hans-Joachim Gehrke continues to refine his work on 'intentional history', which he defines as a history in the self-understanding of social groups and communities - connected to a corresponding understanding of the other - which is important, even essential, for the collective identity, social cohesion, political behaviour and the cultural orientation of such units. In a series of four chapters Gehrke illustrates how Greeks' histories were consciously employed to help shape political and social realities. In particular, he argues that poets were initially the masters of the past and that this dominance of the aesthetic in the view of the past led to an indissoluble amalgamation of myth and history and lasting tension between poetry and truth in the genre of historiography. The book reveals a more sophisticated picture of Greek historiography, its intellectual foundations, and its wider social-political contexts., Like every society, the Greek communities needed a unifying concept of their past, an 'intentional history'. In direct interaction with poets, they formed an aesthetic network in which myths were considered as historical events. This volume considers how Greeks' histories were consciously employed to help shape political and social realities.

LC Classification NumberDF211