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The past is narrated in retrospect. Historians can either capitalize on the benefit of hindsight and give their narratives a strongly teleological design or they may try to render the past as it was experienced by historical agents and contemporaries. This book explores the fundamental tension between experience and teleology in major works of Greek and Roman historiography, biography and autobiography. The combination of theoretical reflections with close readings yields a new, often surprising assessment of the history of ancient historiography as well as a deeper understanding of such authors as Thucydides, Tacitus and Augustine. While much recent work has focused on how ancient historians use emplotment to generate historical meaning, Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography offers a new approach to narrative form as a mode of coming to grips with time.
History, Ancient --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- History --- Histoire ancienne --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Histoire --- Historiography. --- Historiography --- Methodology. --- Historiographie --- Méthodologie --- Antike. --- Geschichtsschreibung. --- Methode. --- Griechenland. --- Römisches Reich. --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Méthodologie --- Arts and Humanities --- Ancient rhetoric --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Rhetoric
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Narration. --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Homer --- Homer. --- Homerus, --- Literary style.
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In this bold book, Jonas Grethlein proposes a new dialogue between the fields of Classics and aesthetics. Ancient material, he argues, has the capacity to challenge and re-orientate current debates. Comparisons with modern art and literature help to balance the historicism of classical scholarship with transcultural theoretical critique. Grethlein discusses ancient narratives and pictures in order to explore the nature of aesthetic experience. While our responses to both narratives and pictures are vicarious, the 'as-if' on which they are premised is specifically shaped by the form of the representation. Form emerges as a key to how narratives and pictures constitute an important means of engaging with experience. Combining theoretical reflections with close readings, this book will appeal to art historians as well as to textual scholars.
Form. --- Aesthetics, Ancient. --- Arts, Classical --- Classical antiquities in art. --- Classical antiquities in literature. --- Classical literature --- Ästhetik. --- Antike. --- Kunst. --- Literatur. --- Philosophy. --- History and criticism. --- HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- Classical arts
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The concept of mimesis has dominated reflection on the nature and role, in Greek literature, of representation. Jonas Grethlein, in his ambitious new book, takes this reflection a step further. He argues that, beyond mimesis, there was an important but unacknowledged strand of reflection focused instead on the nuanced idea of apatē (often translated into English as 'deceit'), oscillating between notions of 'deception' and 'aesthetic illusion'. Many authors from Gorgias and Plato to Philo, Plutarch and Clement of Alexandria used this key concept to entwine aesthetics with ethics. In creatively exploring the various reconfigurations of apatē, and placing these in their socio-historical contexts, the book offers a bold new history of ancient aesthetics. It also explores the present significance of the aesthetics of deception, unlocking the potential of ancient reflection for current debates on the ethical dimension of representation. It will appeal to scholars in classics and literary theory alike.
Greek literature --- Aesthetics in literature. --- Deception in literature. --- History and criticism.
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The taxonomies of narratology have proven valuable tools for the analysis of ancient literature, but, since they were mostly forged in the analysis of modern novels, they have also occluded the distinct quality of ancient narrative and its understanding in antiquity. Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory paves the way for a new approach to ancient narrative that investigates its specific logic. Jonas Grethlein's sophisticated discussion of a wide range of literary texts in conjunction with works of criticism sheds new light on such central issues as fictionality, voice, Theory of Mind and narrative motivation. The book provides classicists with an introduction to ancient views of narrative but is also a major contribution to a historically sensitive theory of narrative.
Narration (Rhetoric) --- Greek literature --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric)
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Forderungen nach Dekolonialisierung haben in den Altertumswissenschaften zuletzt eine heftige Debatte über den Platz der griechisch-römischen Antike in der Geschichte und Gegenwart ausgelöst. Jonas Grethlein zeichnet hier diese Debatte nach und entwickelt eine eigene Position. Den Advokaten der Identitätspolitik, die eine kritische Revision der Geschichte der Altertumswissenschaften und des Kanons fordern, stehen konservative Fachvertreter gegenüber, die im griechisch-römischen Altertum die Wurzeln unserer kulturellen Identität sehen. In beiden Fällen erweist sich die Kategorie der Identität als problematisch - sie verkürzt entweder den Zugriff auf die Antike narzisstisch oder überstrapaziert sie normativ. Auch Uvo Hölschers Formel des 'nächsten Fremden' kann in einer globalisierten Welt die Beschäftigung mit der Antike nicht mehr rechtfertigen - es gibt viele andere vergangene und gegenwärtige Kulturen, die uns neue Perspektiven auf die Gegenwart eröffnen können. Es ist eine zentrale Herausforderung für die Altertumswissenschaften, die Hinterlassenschaft der Antike für die Gegenwart fruchtbar zu machen. Auch wenn griechische und lateinische Texte keinen besonderen Status mehr beanspruchen können, bietet ihre Reflexivität vielfältige Ansatzpunkte für die Auseinandersetzung.
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Aesthetics --- Thematology --- Literature --- Classical Greek literature
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