This book explores the tension in ancient historiography between teleological design and narrating the past as it was experienced by historical characters.

The categories of classical narratology have been successfully applied to ancient texts in the last two decades, but in the meantime narratological theory has moved on. In ...

Investigates literary memory in the fifth century BCE, covering poetry and oratory as well as the first Greek historians.

Traces the five-hundred year history and wide-ranging influence of the Roman historian's unflattering book about the ancient Germans that was eventually extolled by the Nazis ...

Literaturgeschichten gehören zum täglichen Handwerkszeug des Literaturwissenschaftlers. Aber es wird selten über verschiedene Formen der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung sowie ...

This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.

Well-known as a brilliant general and politician, Caesar also played a fundamental role in the formation of the Latin literary language and history of Latin Literature. This ...

In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction and theories of literature. This final ...

Plutarch's Parallel Lives were written to compare famous Greeks and Romans. This most obvious aspect of their parallelism is frequently ignored in the drive to mine Plutarch ...