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The Politics of Viewing in Xenophon’s Historical Narratives

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Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-15902-0 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
This book considers cultural identity and power relations in early fourth-century BCE Greece through a reading of Xenophon’s historical narratives, the Hellenica, Anabasis and Cyropaedia. These texts depict conflicts between Greek states, conflicts between Greeks and non-Greeks, and relations between the elite individual and society. In all three texts, politically significant moments are imagined in visual terms. We witness spectacles of Spartan military victory, vistas of Asian landscape or displays of Persian imperial pomp, and historical protagonists are presented as spectators viewing and responding to events.

Through this visual form of narration, the reader is encouraged imaginatively to place themselves in the position of the historical protagonists. In viewing events from different perspectives, and therefore occupying multiple, often conflicting political positions, the reader not only experiences the problems faced by historical actors, but becomes engaged in the political conflicts acted out in the narratives.

The reader is prompted to take pleasure in the sight of Panhellenic achievement, but also to witness the divisions and conflicts between Greeks on class and ethnic lines. Similarly the reader is invited to identify with spectacular Greek and non-Greek figures of power as emblems of Greek imperial potential, but also to see through the eyes of those communities subjugated at their hands. The depiction of spectacles and spectators draws the reader into an active participation in the ideological contradictions of their time, in a period when Panhellenic aspiration co-existed with hegemonic competition between Greek states, and when Greeks could be both beneficiaries and victims of imperialism.

Rosie Harman is Lecturer in Greek Historiography at University College, London, UK.

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Visual experience and ideology
2. Visual Contexts
3. Hellenica: Viewing Greek history
4. Anabasis: Foreign travel and identification
5. Cyropaedia: Imperial fantasy and danger
6. Conclusion: Reading practices and political consequences

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Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-350-15902-6 / 1350159026
ISBN-13 978-1-350-15902-0 / 9781350159020
Zustand Neuware
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