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Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Ulrich Von

 
9781163253786: Greek Historical Writing And Apollo: Two Lectures Delivered Before The University Of Oxford

Sinopsis

The book ""Greek Historical Writing And Apollo: Two Lectures Delivered Before The University Of Oxford"" is a collection of two lectures delivered by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. The lectures focus on the relationship between Greek historical writing and the god Apollo. The first lecture explores the role of Apollo in Greek historical writing and how the god was used to legitimize historical events and figures. The second lecture examines the influence of Apollo on the development of Greek historical writing and how the god's cult influenced the way history was written in ancient Greece. The lectures provide insights into the intersection of religion and history in ancient Greece and shed light on the cultural and intellectual context in which Greek historical writing emerged. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of ancient history, religion, and literature.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

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Magdalen College offered me hospitality; for a very famous Magdalen man has been an intimate friend of mine since my first years as a student. It is now forty years since I first acquired for my library, as my first book of learning in theE nglish language, Edward Gibbon simmortal history. And now that I am here to expound to you my thoughts about the growth and the nature of historical writing in Greece, I gladly make Gibbon my starting-point. Of course his work is admirable. Of course noG reek produced anything like it. And yet, if we apply to it the canon of historical research which the nineteenth century brought into vogue, it can only be called a work of research in the same qualified sense as the works of the ancients. Gibbon was no researcher in the strict sense. He made no inquiry into sources ;he arrived at no new fact or datum. Despite all the labour he spent in reading his original authorities, despite all the freedom of his judgement, he walked in a prescribed path and he accepted a tradition. Without the laborious compilations which were achieved in the age of polyhistory ,without, for instance, the unsurpassable industry and learning ofT illemont, Gibbon swork would be unthinkable.
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