Luke Pitcher
Biographic Data
| ID | 5634340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Pitcher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Pitcher |
| SIGNATURE | PITCHER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1486-0197 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
History and Plutarch 'De Garrulitate'
This article examines an anecdote about the loquacity of an imaginary friend of Socrates which Plutarch tells to illustrate the vice of talkativeness at De garrulitate 21. It argues that the anecdote derives more meaning when read against Thucydides Book 8, as Plutarch invites the reader to do. Read thus, the talkative man’s ramblings take on a complexity and menace which they would not otherwise possess. Thus, the article demonstrates the valid…
Thucydides in Greek and Roman Historiography
This chapter explores the reception of Thucydides in later Greek and Roman historiography. It identifies three key themes in this reception. First, the tendency to avoid naming Thucydides, making him an ‘absent presence’ in later historical writing. Second, the adaptation and redeployment of Thucydidean themes in subsequent work. Third, the importance allotted to Thucydides’ Athenian context. These themes are discussed with reference to a number …
Cassius Dio and Greco-Roman Historiography
The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted from 431 to 404 BC, and is a masterpiece of narrative art and of political analysis. The twenty chapters in this Companion offer a wide range of perspectives on different aspects of the text, its i…
Verena Schulz
Scillus and After
In this chapter I analyse the way in which Scillus comes to be characterised as the locale in which Xenophon wrote his own histories. Such an idea is unmentioned in the Anabasis. Already in Diogenes Laertius and Cassius Dio, however, we can see it as well entrenched. I argue that later writers are feeling their way towards a standard model for how a historian’s life should unfold. Scillus becomes important as a place of tranquillity in exile, whe…
Caesar and Greek Historians
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Future’s Bright? Looking Forward in Appian
Bigger from a Distance
This chapter examines the depiction of Antiochus III, the Seleucid king of Syria at the end of the third century BC, in the Syriake, a book of the history of Rome written by Appian of Alexandria in the second century AD and a key text for Hellenistic history and historiography. It argues that there is a fundamental paradox in this depiction. Antiochus absorbs the narrative in the opening chapters of the Syriake. However, the book is not named aft…
Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography
Historians often refer to past events which took place prior to their narrative's proper past - that is, they refer to a 'plupast'. This past embedded in the past can be evoked by characters as well as by the historian in his own voice. It can bring into play other texts, but can also draw on lieux de mémoire or on material objects. The articles assembled in this volume explore the manifold forms of the plupast in Greek and Roman historians from …
The Roman Historians after Livy
This chapter contains sections titled: Further Reading
Writing Ancient History
Well organised and laid out with attractive features for students, this book covers the subject of writing about ancient history
Writing Ancient History
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon’, said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of history, especially ancient history, is a practice that often prompts more discord than assent. In his new textbook, Luke Pitcher aims to overcome the hostility which exists between two rival camps in their study of classical historiography. The first camp looks at the classical historians with an eye to what data they can provi…
A Perfect Storm? Caesar and His Audiences at Lucan 5.504–702
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Characterization in Ancient Historiography
Plutarch's eloquent statement of generic distinction has often been quoted. It is a salutary warning against demanding from the biographer emphases and concerns which one might expect in a historian. Viewed from the other end, though, the remark is equally illuminating. Plutarch's dictum might be taken to imply that the depiction of human personality and idiosyncrasy – integral to the modern notion of “characterization” – is a distraction from th…
Narrative Technique in The Lives of the Ten Orators
This article uses theoretical approaches to the discussion of power to consider the role of public and patient participation in Primary Care organisations in the UK. There is considerable evidence to suggest that, despite major national initiatives to extend participation in health services, its role in decision-making remains under-developed. The primary purpose of this article is to understand how and why this should be the case. Using findings…
Writing Ancient History
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon’, said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of history, especially ancient history, is a practice that often prompts more discord than assent. In his new textbook, Luke Pitcher aims to overcome the hostility which exists between two rival camps in their study of classical historiography. The first camp looks at the classical historians with an eye to what data they can provi…
A Perfect Storm? Caesar and His Audiences at Lucan 5.504–702
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Narrative Technique in The Lives of the Ten Orators
This article uses theoretical approaches to the discussion of power to consider the role of public and patient participation in Primary Care organisations in the UK. There is considerable evidence to suggest that, despite major national initiatives to extend participation in health services, its role in decision-making remains under-developed. The primary purpose of this article is to understand how and why this should be the case. Using findings…
Narrative Technique in The Lives of the Ten Orators
This article uses theoretical approaches to the discussion of power to consider the role of public and patient participation in Primary Care organisations in the UK. There is considerable evidence to suggest that, despite major national initiatives to extend participation in health services, its role in decision-making remains under-developed. The primary purpose of this article is to understand how and why this should be the case. Using findings…
Characterization in Ancient Historiography
Plutarch's eloquent statement of generic distinction has often been quoted. It is a salutary warning against demanding from the biographer emphases and concerns which one might expect in a historian. Viewed from the other end, though, the remark is equally illuminating. Plutarch's dictum might be taken to imply that the depiction of human personality and idiosyncrasy – integral to the modern notion of “characterization” – is a distraction from th…
A Perfect Storm? Caesar and His Audiences at Lucan 5.504–702
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Roman Historians after Livy
This chapter contains sections titled: Further Reading
Writing Ancient History
Well organised and laid out with attractive features for students, this book covers the subject of writing about ancient history
Writing Ancient History
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon’, said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of history, especially ancient history, is a practice that often prompts more discord than assent. In his new textbook, Luke Pitcher aims to overcome the hostility which exists between two rival camps in their study of classical historiography. The first camp looks at the classical historians with an eye to what data they can provi…
Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography
Historians often refer to past events which took place prior to their narrative's proper past - that is, they refer to a 'plupast'. This past embedded in the past can be evoked by characters as well as by the historian in his own voice. It can bring into play other texts, but can also draw on lieux de mémoire or on material objects. The articles assembled in this volume explore the manifold forms of the plupast in Greek and Roman historians from …
Bigger from a Distance
This chapter examines the depiction of Antiochus III, the Seleucid king of Syria at the end of the third century BC, in the Syriake, a book of the history of Rome written by Appian of Alexandria in the second century AD and a key text for Hellenistic history and historiography. It argues that there is a fundamental paradox in this depiction. Antiochus absorbs the narrative in the opening chapters of the Syriake. However, the book is not named aft…
Future’s Bright? Looking Forward in Appian
Caesar and Greek Historians
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Verena Schulz
Scillus and After
In this chapter I analyse the way in which Scillus comes to be characterised as the locale in which Xenophon wrote his own histories. Such an idea is unmentioned in the Anabasis. Already in Diogenes Laertius and Cassius Dio, however, we can see it as well entrenched. I argue that later writers are feeling their way towards a standard model for how a historian’s life should unfold. Scillus becomes important as a place of tranquillity in exile, whe…
Thucydides in Greek and Roman Historiography
This chapter explores the reception of Thucydides in later Greek and Roman historiography. It identifies three key themes in this reception. First, the tendency to avoid naming Thucydides, making him an ‘absent presence’ in later historical writing. Second, the adaptation and redeployment of Thucydidean themes in subsequent work. Third, the importance allotted to Thucydides’ Athenian context. These themes are discussed with reference to a number …
Cassius Dio and Greco-Roman Historiography
The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted from 431 to 404 BC, and is a masterpiece of narrative art and of political analysis. The twenty chapters in this Companion offer a wide range of perspectives on different aspects of the text, its i…
History and Plutarch 'De Garrulitate'
This article examines an anecdote about the loquacity of an imaginary friend of Socrates which Plutarch tells to illustrate the vice of talkativeness at De garrulitate 21. It argues that the anecdote derives more meaning when read against Thucydides Book 8, as Plutarch invites the reader to do. Read thus, the talkative man’s ramblings take on a complexity and menace which they would not otherwise possess. Thus, the article demonstrates the valid…
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