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Informationen zum Autor Jonas Grethlein is Professor in Classics at Heidelberg University. He is the author of The Greeks and Their Past: Poetry! Oratory and History in Fifth-Century Greece (Cambridge University Press! 2010). Christopher B. Krebs is Associate Professor of Classics at Harvard University! co-chair of the Classical Traditions Seminar at the Humanities Center and Professeur Invite at the Ecole Normale Superieure. He is the author of! most recently! A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus' Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich (2011). Klappentext This book offers case studies of the past embedded in the past as a window into the ancient historians' workshop. Zusammenfassung References to the past embedded in historical narratives have until now not received the same systematic attention as references to the stage and poetry in plays (metatheatre) and poems (metapoetics). This volume offers case studies of the past embedded in the past as a window into the ancient historians' workshop. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The historian's plupast: introductory remarks on its forms and functions Jonas Grethlein and Christopher B. Krebs; 2. Speaker's past and plupast: Herodotus in the light of elegy and lyric Deborah Boedeker; 3. The mythic plupast in Herodotus Emily Baragwanath; 4. The use and abuse of history in the Plataean debate (Thuc. 3.52-68) Jonas Grethlein; 5. The plupast in Xenophon's Hellenica Tim Rood; 6. Magna mihi copia est memorandi: modes of historiography in the speeches of Caesar and Cato (Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 51-4) Andrew Feldherr; 7. Negotiating the plupast: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Roman self-definition Clemence Schultze; 8. M. Manlius Capitolinus: the metaphorical plupast and metahistorical reflections Christopher B. Krebs; 9. Repetita bellorum ciuilium memoria: the remembrance of civil war and its literature in Tacitus, Histories 1.50 Timothy Joseph; 10. Mimesis and the (plu)past in Plutarch's Lives Alexei Zadorojnyi; 11. War stories: the uses of the plupast in Appian Luke Pitcher....
