Title: Making time for the past : local history and the polis /
Authors: Clarke, Katherine.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Time.; History Philosophy; Cities and towns, Ancient Greece; Cities and towns Greece History.; Cities and towns History; Greece History.
Abstract: "This book is about time and history in the Greek world. In argues that choices concerning the articulation and expression of time, especially time past, reflect the values and aspirations of both those who narrate it and their audiences. Time is thus not only constructed, but also negotiated. This study brings together the wider theme of "managing time" with an exploration of how history was created at a local level within a civic context."--Jacket.
Contents: I. Introduction -- II. Making a business of time -- III. world outside the polis -- IV. 'City is history incarnate': writing the past of the polis -- V. Persuasion and plausibility: history and rhetoric in the polis -- VI. Time for the polis: audiences and contexts.