Gordon Shrimpton
Biographic Data
| ID | 416322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon Shrimpton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon |
| FAMILY NAME | Shrimpton |
| SIGNATURE | SHRIMPTON G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Oh, Those Rational Athenians! Civil War, Reconciliation, and Public Memory in Ancient Athens (CA. 630–403)
On a célébré, à juste titre, l’amnistie qui mit fin à la guerre civile à Athènes à la fin du V e s. av. J.-C. Cette attitude ne saurait cependant expliquer l’événement. Malgré leurs nouvelles approches, deux études récentes n’ont pas abouti à des résultats satisfaisants dans la compréhension historique de cette amnistie. La stasis , qui a connu une longue histoire à Athènes, est dépeinte par les Athéniens de deux façons. D’une part, les skolia in…
The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens
This special issue of *Phoenix* explores the complex interplay of memory and forgetting in ancient Athens. Examining various literary and epigraphic sources, the contributors analyze how the Athenians constructed collective memory and dealt with traumatic events, particularly the Peloponnesian War and the rule of the Thirty Tyrants. The articles discuss the selective nature of remembrance, the role of ritual and public discourse in shaping memory…
Herodotus' Views of Nature
History and Memory in Ancient Greece
Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography
History and Memory in Ancient Greece
History and Memory in Ancient Greece
A study of the effects of memory and mnemonics on early Greek historical writing. This text examines the methods used by ancient historians to give their narratives authenticity and raises questions about the nature of ancient historical knowledge by contrasting it with various types of modern knowledge, particularly scientific. The author assesses the early Greek historians - Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Ephorus, and Theopompus - in light of…
Theopompus the Historian
Theopompus The Historian
In Theopompus the Historian, Gordon Shrimpton critically examines the direct evidence concerning the life and lost works of Theopompus of Chios, the fourth-century BC historian and orator, providing the first comprehensive study of the man and his work. In a translation of the fragments (the surviving citations of Theopompus' work) and of the testimonies (the references made to Theopompus' work by other writers), he makes available all that remai…
Persian Strategy against Egypt and the Date for the Battle of Citium
SOMETIME IN THE EARLY YEARS of the fourth century Evagoras of Cyprus began (or was forced into) a prolonged revolt from the Persian empire. The chronology of this revolt and of its main events is disputed and may be beyond recovery. The only full ancient narrative that we have comes from Diodorus of Sicily, and is manifestly tangled. Scattered passages in his narrative claim that the revolt began in 391/90 (Diod. 14.98.3), lasted very nearly ten …
The Nature of History in Ancient Greece and Rome
Herodotean Narrative and Discourse
Mabel Lang offers a new interpretation of Herodotus. Her reading of the ?Father of History? pinpoints the aspects of his style that clearly derive from oral composition. Lang examines oral techniques in storytelling, known from folktales and other oral literature as well as from Homer. She shows how the dramatic use of speeches?so characteristic of folk literature?played an important part in Herodotus' development of history out of the chronologi…
When Did Plataea Join Athens
Classical Contributions: Studies in Honour of Malcolm Francis McGregor
Plutarch's Themistocles: A Historical Commentary
The Description for this book, Plutarch's Themistocles: A Historical Commentary, will be forthcoming
The Persian Cavalry at Marathon
THE attempt to understand the battle of Marathon is full of pitfalls. One that has received little attention has been the theoretical presupposition that cavalry always has an enormous advantage over infantry. The truth is that their relative strengths changed throughout antiquity. Cavalry had been less formidable before the Macedonian introduction of units of lancers that could charge home against almost any formation of infantry.' The battle of…
"Theopompus' Treatment of Philip in the "Philippica
THE BEST PLACE to begin a study of Theopompus' treatment of Philip is with the long discussion found in Polybius (T 19).' Apart from the extensive treatise by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, which Professor Walbank considers a refutation of Polybius,2 it is the longest piece of descriptive criticism of the Philippica that we have. Indeed, the whole passage is much too long to cite. So a summary with a few key observations will have to suffice
The Theban Supremacy in Fourth-Century Literature
THE VICTORY Of Thebans over Spartans at Leuctra in 371 must have been almost as sensational as Athenian victory at Marathon, or that won by allies at Salamis. Cicero said that victorious general at Leuctra, Epaminondas, was on lips of Greeks but Epicureans,' but if that was so in Cicero's day it had not always been true. As far as we can judge today, Epaminondas (like his great colleague Pelopidas) was either ignored or neglected by most writers …
The Fifth Century B. C
Il Problema del Decreto di Temistocle
The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens
This special issue of *Phoenix* explores the complex interplay of memory and forgetting in ancient Athens. Examining various literary and epigraphic sources, the contributors analyze how the Athenians constructed collective memory and dealt with traumatic events, particularly the Peloponnesian War and the rule of the Thirty Tyrants. The articles discuss the selective nature of remembrance, the role of ritual and public discourse in shaping memory…
Herodotean Narrative and Discourse
Mabel Lang offers a new interpretation of Herodotus. Her reading of the ?Father of History? pinpoints the aspects of his style that clearly derive from oral composition. Lang examines oral techniques in storytelling, known from folktales and other oral literature as well as from Homer. She shows how the dramatic use of speeches?so characteristic of folk literature?played an important part in Herodotus' development of history out of the chronologi…
"Theopompus' Treatment of Philip in the "Philippica
THE BEST PLACE to begin a study of Theopompus' treatment of Philip is with the long discussion found in Polybius (T 19).' Apart from the extensive treatise by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, which Professor Walbank considers a refutation of Polybius,2 it is the longest piece of descriptive criticism of the Philippica that we have. Indeed, the whole passage is much too long to cite. So a summary with a few key observations will have to suffice
Theopompus The Historian
In Theopompus the Historian, Gordon Shrimpton critically examines the direct evidence concerning the life and lost works of Theopompus of Chios, the fourth-century BC historian and orator, providing the first comprehensive study of the man and his work. In a translation of the fragments (the surviving citations of Theopompus' work) and of the testimonies (the references made to Theopompus' work by other writers), he makes available all that remai…
The Persian Cavalry at Marathon
THE attempt to understand the battle of Marathon is full of pitfalls. One that has received little attention has been the theoretical presupposition that cavalry always has an enormous advantage over infantry. The truth is that their relative strengths changed throughout antiquity. Cavalry had been less formidable before the Macedonian introduction of units of lancers that could charge home against almost any formation of infantry.' The battle of…
Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography
When Did Plataea Join Athens
Il Problema del Decreto di Temistocle
The Theban Supremacy in Fourth-Century Literature
THE VICTORY Of Thebans over Spartans at Leuctra in 371 must have been almost as sensational as Athenian victory at Marathon, or that won by allies at Salamis. Cicero said that victorious general at Leuctra, Epaminondas, was on lips of Greeks but Epicureans,' but if that was so in Cicero's day it had not always been true. As far as we can judge today, Epaminondas (like his great colleague Pelopidas) was either ignored or neglected by most writers …
The Fifth Century B. C
"Theopompus' Treatment of Philip in the "Philippica
THE BEST PLACE to begin a study of Theopompus' treatment of Philip is with the long discussion found in Polybius (T 19).' Apart from the extensive treatise by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, which Professor Walbank considers a refutation of Polybius,2 it is the longest piece of descriptive criticism of the Philippica that we have. Indeed, the whole passage is much too long to cite. So a summary with a few key observations will have to suffice
The Persian Cavalry at Marathon
THE attempt to understand the battle of Marathon is full of pitfalls. One that has received little attention has been the theoretical presupposition that cavalry always has an enormous advantage over infantry. The truth is that their relative strengths changed throughout antiquity. Cavalry had been less formidable before the Macedonian introduction of units of lancers that could charge home against almost any formation of infantry.' The battle of…
Plutarch's Themistocles: A Historical Commentary
The Description for this book, Plutarch's Themistocles: A Historical Commentary, will be forthcoming
Classical Contributions: Studies in Honour of Malcolm Francis McGregor
When Did Plataea Join Athens
The Nature of History in Ancient Greece and Rome
Herodotean Narrative and Discourse
Mabel Lang offers a new interpretation of Herodotus. Her reading of the ?Father of History? pinpoints the aspects of his style that clearly derive from oral composition. Lang examines oral techniques in storytelling, known from folktales and other oral literature as well as from Homer. She shows how the dramatic use of speeches?so characteristic of folk literature?played an important part in Herodotus' development of history out of the chronologi…
Theopompus The Historian
In Theopompus the Historian, Gordon Shrimpton critically examines the direct evidence concerning the life and lost works of Theopompus of Chios, the fourth-century BC historian and orator, providing the first comprehensive study of the man and his work. In a translation of the fragments (the surviving citations of Theopompus' work) and of the testimonies (the references made to Theopompus' work by other writers), he makes available all that remai…
Persian Strategy against Egypt and the Date for the Battle of Citium
SOMETIME IN THE EARLY YEARS of the fourth century Evagoras of Cyprus began (or was forced into) a prolonged revolt from the Persian empire. The chronology of this revolt and of its main events is disputed and may be beyond recovery. The only full ancient narrative that we have comes from Diodorus of Sicily, and is manifestly tangled. Scattered passages in his narrative claim that the revolt began in 391/90 (Diod. 14.98.3), lasted very nearly ten …
Theopompus the Historian
History and Memory in Ancient Greece
A study of the effects of memory and mnemonics on early Greek historical writing. This text examines the methods used by ancient historians to give their narratives authenticity and raises questions about the nature of ancient historical knowledge by contrasting it with various types of modern knowledge, particularly scientific. The author assesses the early Greek historians - Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Ephorus, and Theopompus - in light of…
History and Memory in Ancient Greece
Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography
History and Memory in Ancient Greece
Herodotus' Views of Nature
The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens
This special issue of *Phoenix* explores the complex interplay of memory and forgetting in ancient Athens. Examining various literary and epigraphic sources, the contributors analyze how the Athenians constructed collective memory and dealt with traumatic events, particularly the Peloponnesian War and the rule of the Thirty Tyrants. The articles discuss the selective nature of remembrance, the role of ritual and public discourse in shaping memory…
Oh, Those Rational Athenians! Civil War, Reconciliation, and Public Memory in Ancient Athens (CA. 630–403)
On a célébré, à juste titre, l’amnistie qui mit fin à la guerre civile à Athènes à la fin du V e s. av. J.-C. Cette attitude ne saurait cependant expliquer l’événement. Malgré leurs nouvelles approches, deux études récentes n’ont pas abouti à des résultats satisfaisants dans la compréhension historique de cette amnistie. La stasis , qui a connu une longue histoire à Athènes, est dépeinte par les Athéniens de deux façons. D’une part, les skolia in…
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