The Hellenica Oxyrhynchia and Historiography

New Research Perspectives

Egidia Occhipinti (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2016
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-32571-5 (ISBN)

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This book involves a historiographical study of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia that defines its relationship with fifth- and fourth-century historical works and its role as a source of Diodorus’ Bibliotheke. The study is supported by intertextual comparison, narratological and papyrological investigations.

This book involves a new historiographical study of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia that defines its relationship with fifth- and fourth-century historical works as well as its role as a source of Diodorus’ Bibliotheke. The traditional and common approach taken by those who studied the HO is primarily historical: scholars have focused on particular, often isolated, topics such as the question of the authorship, the historical perspective of the HO against other Hellenica from the 4th century BC. This book is unconventional in that it offers a study of the HO and fifth- and fourth-century historical works supported by papyrological enquiries and literary strategies, such as intertextuality and narratology, which will undoubtedly contribute to the progress of research in ancient historiography.

Egidia Occhipinti, Ph.D. (2006), awarded with the Merante prize (2011), Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford from 2011 to 2013 (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF), has published many articles in peer-reviewed journals and in conference proceedings. She is involved as co-author in writing a critical edition of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia for the Italian series «I Frammenti degli Storici Greci».

Contents

Acknowledgements

1 The HO in the View of Modern Scholars
1.1 The Authorship
1.2 A New Proposal and Old Theories
1.3 The HO and Xenophon’s Hellenica

part 1
2 The Work and the Reader
2.1 The Narrative Character of Fourth-Century Hellenica
2.2 P. Oxy. V 842: Annalistic Framework, Synchronistic Narrative
2.3 The Historian’s Evaluation and Its Impact on the Readers
2.4 Conclusion

3 Spartan Motivations: the HO and Xenophon
3.1 Greek Hostility and Sparta’s Reasons
3.2 Sparta’s Asiatic Campaign and Its Analysis
3.3 Agesilaus’ Motivations and the Lasting Significance of the Spartan Campaign in Asia
3.4 The End of a Dream?
3.5 Conclusion

4 Diodorus, the HO and Xenophon: A Reassessment
4.1 The HO as a Source for Diodorus’ Bibliotheke
4.2 Diodorus’ Thirteenth Book and the Florence Papyrus
4.3 Diodorus, the Cairo Papyrus and Xenophon
4.4 Diodorus on Theramenes: Final Observations
4.5 Conclusion

part 2
5 The HO and Athenian Polypragmosyne
5.1 Athenian πολυπραγμοσύνη: a Literary Topos
5.2 A Fourth-Century Debate?
5.3 Multa per Aequora… Sea Power and Athenian Motivation
5.4 Cnidus According to the Oxyrhynchus Historian: a Solely Persian Success
5.5 Conclusion

6 Terra Marique…
6.1 Decelea, or the Supremacy of Land over Sea
6.2 The Sea as a Barrier
6.3 τὸ συμπολιτεύειν: Thebes versus Boeotia?
6.4 Conclusion
6.5 Analytical Description of the Toponyms Occurring in the HO

7 Historiography and Hegemony
7.1 Sparta, or the Undisputed Hegemony
7.2 Diodorus and the Debate on Hegemony
7.3 Political Realities and Historiographical Simplifications
7.4 Conclusion

8 Historical Causation
8.1 Why Do Things Happen?
8.2 To Blame or not to Blame… Individual and Collective Responsibilities
8.3 Visibility and Clarity in Historical Causation
8.4 Thebes, or Intra-Greek Hostility
8.5 Stasis, or the Dimension of Internal Conflict. What Awareness of Thucydides?
8.6 Conclusion

9 ‘Moralism’ in Historiography
9.1 The HO and Thucydides: What ‘Moralism’?
9.2 ‘Moralism,’ ‘Morality,’ and Moral Lessons
9.3 Theopompus: ‘Moralism’ versus ‘Morality’?
9.4 Praise/Blame in Ephorus?
9.5 Conclusion

Conclusion

Appendix
1 A New Supplement for Lines 31–32 of the Theramenes Papyrus (P. Mich. 5982)
2 History, Oratory and Their Audiences
3 Diodorus and Rome
4 Translations

Bibliography
Index of Names
Thematic Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.09.2016
Reihe/Serie	Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 395
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch; deutsch; Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	617 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
ISBN-10	90-04-32571-9 / 9004325719
ISBN-13	978-90-04-32571-5 / 9789004325715
Zustand	Neuware