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Making Time for the Past: Local History and the Polis

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Making Time for the Past: Local History and the Polis - Clarke, Katherine
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This book has two main and connected themes - the conception and articulation of time in the Greek world and the creation of history, especially in the context of the Greek city. Both how time is expressed and how the past is presented have often been seen as reflections of society. By looking at the construction of the past through the medium of local historiography, where we can view these issues in the relatively restricted world of individual city-states, we can gain a clearer insight into how different versions of the ...

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Making Time for the Past: Local History and the Polis 2011, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780199694983

Paperback

Making Time for the Past: Local History and the Polis 2008, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780199291083

Hardcover