Making Time for the Past: Local History and the Polis

by Katherine Clarke

This book has two main and connected themes - the conception and articulation of time in the Greek world and the creation of history, especially in the context of the Greek city. Both how time is expressed and how the past is presented have often been seen as reflections of society. By looking at the construction of the past through the medium of local historiography, where we can view these issues in the relatively restricted world of individual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019929108X
• ISBN13: 9780199291083
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"