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In this volume, an international group of leading academics undertake an examination of epitēdeumata ('way of life') in Greek history, looking at cultural practices as acts which relate meaningfully to perceived sequences of past acts.
List of contents
- 1: Alfonso Moreno and Rosalind Thomas: Introduction
- 2: Bruno D'Agostino: The Trojan Horse: Between Athena and Artemis
- 3: Ewen Bowie: Rediscovering Sacadas
- 4: François Lissarrague: The Early Greek Trophy: The Iconographic Tradition of Time and Space
- 5: Nino Luraghi: The Cunning Tyrant: The Cultural Logic of a Narrative Pattern
- 6: Pauline Schmitt-Pantel: Political Traditions in Democratic Athens
- 7: James Davidson: Past it at Thirty: Legs and Running in Ancient Greek Culture
- 8: Rosalind Thomas: The Greek Polis and the Tradition of Polis History: Local History, Chronicles, and the Patterning of the Past
- 9: Paul Kosmin: Seeing Double in Seleucid Babylonia: Re-reading the Borsippa Cylinder of Antiochus I
- 10: Alfonso Moreno: Theopompus and the Tradition of Greek Paideutic History
- 11: Simon Hornblower: Agariste's Suitors: An Olympic Note
- 12: Oswyn Murray: The Pleasure of Intellectual Friendship
- Appendix: Oswyn Murry - Publications
About the author
Alfonso Moreno is Andrew and Randall Crawley Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Magdalen College, University of Oxford.
Rosalind Thomas is Dyson and McGregor Fellow in Ancient History and Professor in Greek History at Balliol College, University of Oxford.
Summary
In this volume, an international group of leading academics undertake an examination of epitedeumata ('way of life') in Greek history, looking at cultural practices as acts which relate meaningfully to perceived sequences of past acts.
