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

Ancient Greeks remembered their past before the rise of historiography and after it poetry and oratory continued to serve commemorative functions. This book exp

The Greeks has provided a concise yet wide-ranging introduction to the culture of ancient Greece since its first publication. In this expanded second edition th

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