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Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they u...
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oapen-20.500.12657-307872024-03-25T09:51:41Z Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus Hau, Lisa Irene Classics Classical Early and Medieval Ancient History Literary Studies Didacticism Diodorus Siculus Herodotus Polybius Thucydides Xenophon thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across. Hau also shows how moral didacticism was an integral part of the writing of history from its inception in the 5th century BC, how it developed over the next 500 years in parallel with the development of historiography as a genre and how the moral messages on display remained surprisingly stable across this period. For the ancient Greek historiographers, moral didacticism was a way of making sense of the past and making it relevant to the present; but this does not mean that they falsified events: truth and morality were compatible and synergistic ends. 2018-01-24 23:55 2017-12-01 23:55:55 2020-03-24 03:00:27 2020-04-01T13:13:09Z 2020-04-01T13:13:09Z 2016 book 642715 OCN: 964447338 9781474411073 9781474411097 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30787 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 642715.pdf Edinburgh University Press 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474411073.001.0001 101044 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474411073.001.0001 2a191404-86cd-479e-afc8-ff2b8d611a94 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781474411073 9781474411097 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 101044 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across. Hau also shows how moral didacticism was an integral part of the writing of history from its inception in the 5th century BC, how it developed over the next 500 years in parallel with the development of historiography as a genre and how the moral messages on display remained surprisingly stable across this period.
For the ancient Greek historiographers, moral didacticism was a way of making sense of the past and making it relevant to the present; but this does not mean that they falsified events: truth and morality were compatible and synergistic ends. |
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