Product Description: Ancient Greeks remembered their past before the rise of historiography and after it poetry and oratory continued to serve commemorative functions. This book explores the field of literary memory in the fifth century BCE, juxtaposing the works of Herodotus and Thucydides with samples from epinician poetry, elegy, tragedy and oratory...read more

Product Description: Phenomenological and narratological approaches are the basis on which the idea of history in the Iliad is analysed. The first part examines the relations of the heroes to the past. The second part reads the narrative form of the Iliad as an expression of the underlying idea of history...read more