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The main focus of this book is the ancient formation and development of the canons of Greek historiography. It takes a fresh look on the modern debate on canonical literature and deals with Greek historiographical traditions in the works of ancient rhetors and literary critics. Writings on historiography by Cicero, Quintilian, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus are chiefly taken into account to explore the canons of Greek historians in Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Ages. Essential in canon-formation was the concept of classicism which took shape in the Age of Augustus, but whose earlier developments can be traced back to Isocrates, a model rhetor according to Dionysius at the end of the 1st century BC. The analysis explores also late-antique authors of school treatises and progymnasmata, a field where historiography had a pedagogical function. Previous studies on canonical literature have rarely considered historiography. This book examines not only the works of ancient historians and their legacy, but also the relationship between historiography, literary criticism, and the rhetorical tradition
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Ivan Matijašić Shaping the Canons of Ancient Greek Historiography
Beiträge zur Altertumskunde
Herausgegeben von Susanne Daub, Michael Erler, Dorothee Gall, Ludwig Koenen und Clemens Zintzen
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Ivan Matijašić
Shaping the Canons of Ancient Greek Historiography Imitation, Classicism, and Literary Criticism
ISBN 978-3-11-047512-8 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-047627-9 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-047543-2 ISSN 1616-0452 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Matijašić, Ivan, author. Title: Shaping the canons of ancient Greek historiography : imitation, classicism, and literary criticism / Ivan Matijašić. Other titles: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 359. Description: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018. | Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Band 359 | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: LCCN 2018014907| ISBN 9783110475128 (print) | ISBN 9783110475432 (e-book (epub) | ISBN 9783110476279 (e-book (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Greece--Historiography. | Historians--Greece. Classification: LCC DF211 .M38 2018 | DDC 938.0072--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018014907 Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.dnb.de abrufbar. © 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Druck und Bindung: CPI books GmbH, Leck www.degruyter.com
A nono Mano (1928‒2013)
Acknowledgements This book stems from a PhD thesis written in Italian and defended at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in July 2015. Carmine Ampolo, Luigi Battezzato, Didier Marcotte, Astrid Möller, Leone Porciani, Maria Serena Funghi, and Anna Santoni were the members of the committee that awarded my PhD: my gratitude is due to them all for the invaluable insights and suggestions that emerged during and after the discussion. My supervisor, Carmine Ampolo, kindly and steadily encouraged my research during my years in Pisa, where I also enjoyed the friendly and helpful support of Anna Magnetto and Donatella Erdas. During my PhD, I spent the academic year 2012‒2013 at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, where I benefitted from Astrid Möller’s hospitality and Hans-Joachim Gehrke’s renowned humanitas: I wish to thank them both for their help and encouragement during those two semesters in the Schwarzwald. I also benefitted greatly from the seminars they organised (“International Network Historiai”), which were held both in Freiburg and Munich. I am likewise grateful to Didier Marcotte (Paris, formerly Reims) who gave me the opportunity to participate in research semina