How to Do Things With History : New Approaches to Ancient Greece, Hardcover b...

by Paul Christesen

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How to Do Things With History : New Approaches to Ancient Greece, Hardcover by Allen, Danielle (EDT); Christesen, Paul (EDT); Millett, Paul (EDT), ISBN 0190649895, ISBN-13 9780190649890, Brand New, Free shipping in the USHow to Do Things with History is a collection of essays that explores current and future approaches to the study of ancient Greek cultural history. Rather than focus directly on methodology, the essays in this volume demonstrate how some of the most productive and significant methodologies for studying ancient Greece can be employed to illuminate a range of different kinds of subject matter. These essays, which bring together the work of some of the most talented scholars in the field, are based upon papers delivered at a conference held at Cambridge University in September of 2014 in honor of Paul Cartledge's retirement from the post of A. G. Leventis Professor of Ancient Greek Culture.For the better part of four decades, Paul Cartledge has spearheaded intellectual developments in the field of Greek culture in both scholarly and public contexts. His work has combined insightful historical accounts of particular places, periods, and thinkers with a willingness to explore comparative approaches and a keen focus on methodology. Cartledge has throughout his career emphasized the analysis of practice - the study not, for instance, of the history of thought but of thinking in action and through action. The assembled essays trace the broad horizons charted by Cartl

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2018
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780190649890
• Condition: Fine

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