Greek 'local histories', better called polis and island histories, have usually been seen as the poor relation of mainstream 'great' Greek historiography, and yet they were demonstrably popular and extremely numerous from the late Classical period into the Hellenistic. The extensive fragments and testimonia were collected by Felix Jacoby and have been supplemented since with recent finds and inscriptions. Yet while the Athenian histories have received considerable attention, those of other cities have not: this is the first book to consider the polis and island histories as a whole, and as an important cultural and political phenomenon. It challenges the common label of 'antiquarianism' and argues that their role in helping to create 'imagined communities' must be seen partly as a response to fragile and changing status in a changing and expanding Greek world. Important themes are discussed alongside case studies of particular places (including Samos, Miletus, Erythrai, Megara, Athens).

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Thomas, Rosalind

Cambridge Library Collection

RCOG Press

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2019

Cambridge, cop. 2019

Cambridge, 2022

S.l, 2022

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Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on References and Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 What Are Polis Histories? What Are Local Histories? Popular History and Its Audiences
Chapter 2 Tales for the Telling: τὸ μυθῶδες
Chapter 3 Ethnography for the Greeks? The Polis as a New Subject for Historiography
Chapter 4 Fostering the Community: Accumulative Historiography
Chapter 5 Origins, Foundations and Ethnicity: Greeks and Non-Greeks
Chapter 6 Saving the City: Political History or Paradoxa? Miletus and Lesbos
Chapter 7 Polis in Flux: Dislocation and Disenfranchisement in Samos
Chapter 8 Athenian Polis Histories
Chapter 9 The Aristotelian Politeiai and Local Histories
Chapter 10 Polis and Island Histories and the Late Classical and Hellenistic World: A New Hellenism?
Appendix 1 Miletus
Appendix 2 Polis, Island and Ethnos Historians Dated to the Fourth Century
Appendix 3 Register of Polis, Island and Ethnos Histories: Jacoby’s Local Histories
Bibliography
Index Locorum
Index

The first comprehensive re-assessment of the phenomenon of Greek 'local history-writing', which emerged as a popular and important form of history in the late classical and early Hellenistic periods. Argues that these works were central to creating political and cultural identity in a changing and expanding Greek world.

2022-04-25