Carolyn Dewald
Biographic Data
| ID | 5626162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn Dewald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Dewald |
| SIGNATURE | DEWALD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bard College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interpretive Uncertainty in Herodotus’ Histories
In the treatise conventionally entitled De malignitate Herodoti , Plutarch charges Herodotus with systematic malevolence, claiming that his intent as an author was to tarnish the reputation of the great cities and individual heroes featured in his Histories . Plutarch lists eight different ways in which he thinks Herodotus deliberately presented information that would diminish reputations: that he used the harshest of descriptive adjectives, when…
Myth and Legend in Herodotus’ First Book
Historiography
In discussing ancient historiography, this article makes something of the opposite claim: Thucydides – for example – wrote ‘a possession for all time’, but was also a man of his age. The ‘linguistic’ and the ‘cultural’ turn in the study of historiography help situate his work in a broader fifth-century context and acknowledge its strangeness. Among other things, new approaches enable people to rediscover the connections between rhetoric and histo…
Brill's Companion to Thucydides
The Construction of Meaning in the First Three Historians
Near the end of Book 7, Thucydides paints a wonderful scene of Athenian soldiers standing at the edge of the great harbor of Syracuse, watching the unfolding of the sea-battle in front of them that will determine whether they can escape home to Athens. Their bodies torque in agony as they watch, some of them shouting, “We are winning!,” some shouting, “We are losing!,” depending on what part of the battle each man is looking at.
Herodotus, Sophocles and the woman who wanted her brother saved
Many different kinds of thematic resonance come into play in the story that both Herodotus and Sophocles use about the woman who wanted to save a brother rather than her husband or son (3.119). Our argument starts with the observation that one of the most important of these resonances, both to Herodotus the historian and to Sophocles the dramatist, lies in the realm of metanarrative. Both Herodotus and Sophocles are skilled in the artful use of l…
Humour and danger in Herodotus
As Alan Griffiths has commented, 'humour is altogether a funny business'. What one culture finds funny, another might well find appalling; humour in every culture, however, blends a tacit recognition of conventional, expected standards of behaviour and narrative logic, coupled with a transient, unexpected (and sometimes illicit) pleasure at their momentary transgression. It is safe to say that Herodotus, the father of history, knows how to tell a…
The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus
Introduction Carolyn Dewald and John Marincola 1. Herodotus and the poetry of the past John Marincola 2. Herodotus and his prose predecessors Robert Fowler 3. Herodotus and tragedy Jasper Griffin 4. The intellectual milieu of Herodotus Rosalind Thomas 5. Meta-historie: method and genre in the Histories Nino Luraghi 6. The syntax of historie: how Herodotus writes Egbert Bakker 7. Speech and narrative in the Histories Christopher Pelling 8. Herodot…
The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus
Herodotus' Histories is the first major surviving prose work from antiquity. Its range of interests is immense, covering the whole of the known world and much beyond, and it culminates in a detailed account of the Persian Wars of the early fifth century BC. Moreover, research has shown that Herodotus is a sophisticated and at times even ironic narrator, and a pioneer and serious practitioner of historical research at a time when the Greeks' tradi…
Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study
As a sustained analysis of the connections between narrative structure and meaning in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Carolyn Dewald's study revolves around a curious aspect of Thucydides' work: the first ten years of the war's history are formed on principles quite different from those shaping the years that follow. Although aspects of this change in style have been recognized in previous scholarship, Dewald has rigorously analyzed how its…
‘I didn’t give my own genealogy’: Herodotus and the authorial persona
This chapter begins by noting Herodotus' refusal to tell his own genealogy, and with the idea that in his first-person authorial voice he fashioned an 'expert's persona' that owed its authority to the fact that the author/narrator remains an outsider to the text proper in important ways. Herodotus' authorial persona remains an anomaly, therefore, but one with a certain odd spaciousness and idiosyncratic integrity. But what Herodotus has ultimatel…
Oxford World's Classics: Herodotus: The Histories
The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History . François Hartog , Janet Lloyd
Women and culture in Herodotus' Histories
(1981). Women and culture in Herodotus' Histories. Women's Studies: Vol. 8, No. 1-2, pp. 93-127
The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History . François Hartog , Janet Lloyd
Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study
As a sustained analysis of the connections between narrative structure and meaning in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Carolyn Dewald's study revolves around a curious aspect of Thucydides' work: the first ten years of the war's history are formed on principles quite different from those shaping the years that follow. Although aspects of this change in style have been recognized in previous scholarship, Dewald has rigorously analyzed how its…
Women and culture in Herodotus' Histories
(1981). Women and culture in Herodotus' Histories. Women's Studies: Vol. 8, No. 1-2, pp. 93-127
Brill's Companion to Thucydides
Women and culture in Herodotus' Histories
(1981). Women and culture in Herodotus' Histories. Women's Studies: Vol. 8, No. 1-2, pp. 93-127
The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History . François Hartog , Janet Lloyd
Oxford World's Classics: Herodotus: The Histories
‘I didn’t give my own genealogy’: Herodotus and the authorial persona
This chapter begins by noting Herodotus' refusal to tell his own genealogy, and with the idea that in his first-person authorial voice he fashioned an 'expert's persona' that owed its authority to the fact that the author/narrator remains an outsider to the text proper in important ways. Herodotus' authorial persona remains an anomaly, therefore, but one with a certain odd spaciousness and idiosyncratic integrity. But what Herodotus has ultimatel…
Herodotus, Sophocles and the woman who wanted her brother saved
Many different kinds of thematic resonance come into play in the story that both Herodotus and Sophocles use about the woman who wanted to save a brother rather than her husband or son (3.119). Our argument starts with the observation that one of the most important of these resonances, both to Herodotus the historian and to Sophocles the dramatist, lies in the realm of metanarrative. Both Herodotus and Sophocles are skilled in the artful use of l…
Humour and danger in Herodotus
As Alan Griffiths has commented, 'humour is altogether a funny business'. What one culture finds funny, another might well find appalling; humour in every culture, however, blends a tacit recognition of conventional, expected standards of behaviour and narrative logic, coupled with a transient, unexpected (and sometimes illicit) pleasure at their momentary transgression. It is safe to say that Herodotus, the father of history, knows how to tell a…
The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus
Introduction Carolyn Dewald and John Marincola 1. Herodotus and the poetry of the past John Marincola 2. Herodotus and his prose predecessors Robert Fowler 3. Herodotus and tragedy Jasper Griffin 4. The intellectual milieu of Herodotus Rosalind Thomas 5. Meta-historie: method and genre in the Histories Nino Luraghi 6. The syntax of historie: how Herodotus writes Egbert Bakker 7. Speech and narrative in the Histories Christopher Pelling 8. Herodot…
The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus
Herodotus' Histories is the first major surviving prose work from antiquity. Its range of interests is immense, covering the whole of the known world and much beyond, and it culminates in a detailed account of the Persian Wars of the early fifth century BC. Moreover, research has shown that Herodotus is a sophisticated and at times even ironic narrator, and a pioneer and serious practitioner of historical research at a time when the Greeks' tradi…
Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study
As a sustained analysis of the connections between narrative structure and meaning in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Carolyn Dewald's study revolves around a curious aspect of Thucydides' work: the first ten years of the war's history are formed on principles quite different from those shaping the years that follow. Although aspects of this change in style have been recognized in previous scholarship, Dewald has rigorously analyzed how its…
The Construction of Meaning in the First Three Historians
Near the end of Book 7, Thucydides paints a wonderful scene of Athenian soldiers standing at the edge of the great harbor of Syracuse, watching the unfolding of the sea-battle in front of them that will determine whether they can escape home to Athens. Their bodies torque in agony as they watch, some of them shouting, “We are winning!,” some shouting, “We are losing!,” depending on what part of the battle each man is looking at.
Brill's Companion to Thucydides
Historiography
In discussing ancient historiography, this article makes something of the opposite claim: Thucydides – for example – wrote ‘a possession for all time’, but was also a man of his age. The ‘linguistic’ and the ‘cultural’ turn in the study of historiography help situate his work in a broader fifth-century context and acknowledge its strangeness. Among other things, new approaches enable people to rediscover the connections between rhetoric and histo…
Myth and Legend in Herodotus’ First Book
Interpretive Uncertainty in Herodotus’ Histories
In the treatise conventionally entitled De malignitate Herodoti , Plutarch charges Herodotus with systematic malevolence, claiming that his intent as an author was to tarnish the reputation of the great cities and individual heroes featured in his Histories . Plutarch lists eight different ways in which he thinks Herodotus deliberately presented information that would diminish reputations: that he used the harshest of descriptive adjectives, when…
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