Intentional History (eBook)

CONTENTS 6
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 8
1. INTRODUCTION 10
2. GREEK REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PAST 16
3. MYTH AS PAST? ON THE TEMPORAL ASPECT OF GREEK DEPICTIONS OF LEGEND 36
4. THE TROJAN WAR’S RECEPTION IN EARLY GREEK LYRIC, IAMBIC AND ELEGIAC POETRY 58
5. THE GREAT RHETRA (PLUT. LYC. 6): A RETROSPECTIVE AND INTENTIONAL CONSTRUCT? 90
6. COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES, IMAGINED PAST, AND DELPHI 122
7. FISH HEADS AND MUSSEL-SHELLS: VISUALIZING GREEK IDENTITY 138
8. MEDIA FOR THESEUS, OR: THE DIFFERENT IMAGES OF THE ATHENIAN POLIS-HERO 162
9. ULTERIOR MOTIVES IN ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY: WHAT EXACTLY, AND WHY? 190
10. TRAGIC MEMORIES OF DIONYSOS 212
11. CONNECTING WITH THE PAST IN LYKOURGAN ATHENS: AN EPIGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE 226
12. INTENTIONAL HISTORY: ALEXANDER, DEMOSTHENES AND THEBES 240
13. THE DEMOS AS NARRATOR: PUBLIC HONOURS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF FUTURE AND PAST 248
14. GOD AND KING AS SYNOIKISTS: DIVINE DISPOSITION AND MONARCHIC WISHES COMBINED IN THE TRADITIONS OF CITY FOUNDATIONS FOR ALEXANDER’S AND HELLENISTIC TIMES 266
15. “THEY THAT HELD ARKADIA.” ARKADIAN FOUNDATION MYTHS AS INTENTIONAL HISTORY IN ROMAN IMPERIAL TIMES 276
16. ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE NOMADS AND ‘BARBARIAN’ HISTORY IN HAN CHINA 300
17. BEYOND INTENTIONAL HISTORY: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODEL OF THE IDEA OF HISTORY 328
18. CONSTRUCTING ANTIQUITY AND MODERNITY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: DISTANTIATION, ALTERITY, PROXIMITY, IMMANENCY 344