Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
  1. Home
  2. Browse subjects
  3. Classical Studies
  4. Content listing

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

152491 results in Classical Studies

Page 153 of 7625

  • ‘THEY ARE NOT FAR FROM BEING ALL ROMANS’: LATINISATION AND THE LATIN-NOW PROJECT

  • Katherine McDonald
  • Journal:
    The Classical Review / Volume 76 / Issue 1 / April 2026
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 November 2025, pp. 29-37
    Print publication:
    April 2026
    • Article
      • You have access
      • Open access
    • PDF
    • HTML
    • Export citation

  • Chapter 7 - Manipulation of Narrative Time

  • from Part I - Herodotus and Epic Poetry
  • Charles C. Chiasson, University of Texas, Arlington
  • Book:
    Herodotus and the Greek Poetic Tradition
    Published online:
    04 November 2025
    Print publication:
    06 November 2025, pp 229-285

  • Summary

    Herodotus adapts Homeric techniques for manipulating time as a means of structuring an extensive narrative. Like the poet, he uses anachronies (analepses and prolepses) to expand a chronologically focused main story – especially narratorial anachronies that address issues of geographical, ethnographical, and historical significance. The importance of epic precedent is especially visible in the open-ended closure of Herodotus’ narrative, and the sense that it creates of the Histories as being, like an epic poem, both a self-contained whole and part of a larger story to be continued. Herodotus also follows Homer’s lead with regard to narrative rhythm and narrative frequency. Like the epics, the Histories slow down markedly in the climactic stage of the story, and in both authors large-scale repeating narratives serve to juxtapose a character’s version of events with the primary narrator’s, or with another character’s, as a means of highlighting personality traits or thematic issues.

  • Chapter 16 - Tragic Tropes in Other Herodotean Narratives

  • Charles C. Chiasson, University of Texas, Arlington
  • Book:
    Herodotus and the Greek Poetic Tradition
    Published online:
    04 November 2025
    Print publication:
    06 November 2025, pp 648-683

  • Summary

    Varying degrees of tragic stylization are also visible in other stories of Persian and Hellenic monarchs. Tragic effects cluster at the beginning and end of Herodotus’ “biography” of Cyrus. The story of his birth has folktale roots enhanced by various tragic features (intra-familial violence, fated doom precipitated by preventive measures, a variation on the Atreusmahl myth); the story of his last campaign includes tragic vocabulary and a corrective reference to the Aeschylean law of “learning through suffering.” His successor Cambyses is portrayed as a tragic protagonist on his deathbed, when he learns “too late” the true meaning of divine communications he had previously misinterpreted, with disastrous personal and political consequences. Among Greek tyrants, Herodotus portrays the Samian Polycrates and the Corinthian Periander in tragic fashion, the latter in a narrative that bears several hallmarks of Sophoclean tragedy, including sibling conflict over devotion to a dead parent (cf. the playwright’s Electra).

Page 153 of 7625