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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      01 December 2022
      15 December 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009022279
      9781316519783
      9781009011150
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009022279
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 186 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.278kg, 186 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Literature
      Series:
      Classical Scholarship in Translation
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Literature
    Series:
    Classical Scholarship in Translation
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    In 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.

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