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Polis Histories, Collective Memories and the Greek World by Rosalind Thomas (review)
Ist Teil von
The Classical World, 2020, Vol.113 (2), p.232-233
Ort / Verlag
New York: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The book is a triumph and will be required reading for those interested in ancient historical writing, and Hellenistic history and culture. Superficially, this finding puts Thomas in line with Jacoby, but only superficially: unlike Jacoby, who argued that local history was a late development and one in reaction to Herodotus, Thomas sees local history as written in ways that were animated by the same concerns Herodotus had; she often sees the more generous ("baggier," 19), Herodotean scope of the work of the epichorioi than the supposed predominance of a Thucydidean view of the past, one that "included customs, geography, early traditions and more recent political history" (21). Thomas does well to note how different city-states and regions developed distinct proclivities in how they understood their pasts: some histories were overtly political, others were focused on the cultural and religious; one set might tell the same story of the expulsion of a tyrant over and over again ("accumulative historiography") through a succession of writers, while another might acknowledge past stasis but ultimately emphasize the solidarity of a notional and almost timeless demos.