Scott Farrington
Biographic Data
| ID | 9304549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Farrington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Farrington |
| SIGNATURE | FARRINGTON S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A New Take on Emotion in Polybius (On R. Loehr, Emotion and Historiography in Polybius' Histories)
The Art of History
A significant trend in the study of Greek and Roman historiographers is to accept that their works are to a degree both science and fiction. As scholarly interest broadens, in addition to evaluating ancient historians on the basis of the reliability of the information they record, and verifying the narratives against various elements of the material (inscriptions, excavations, numismatics), new studies are beginning to elaborate on the stylistic …
Art of History
A Likely Story
I argue that Polybius demands that a central duty of the historian should be to employ rhetoric to determine which sources are credible, define the course of past events, and convince the reader that the resulting historical narrative is true. Polybius asserts that the historian must 'teach and persuade', so I examine the use of this collocation in other prose authors and rhetorical treatises. I also examine the ways in which Polybius behaves bot…
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
The corpus from Dionysius of Halicarnassus encompasses history, literary criticism, and rhetorical theory.
Agatharchides of Knidos
Agatharchides, born in Knidos, flourished in the last half of the second century BCE and authored works of historiography, ethnography, and geography.
Hanno, Periplus
Hanno's Periplus is the oldest account of the exploration of the west African coast.
A Likely Story
I argue that Polybius demands that a central duty of the historian should be to employ rhetoric to determine which sources are credible, define the course of past events, and convince the reader that the resulting historical narrative is true. Polybius asserts that the historian must 'teach and persuade', so I examine the use of this collocation in other prose authors and rhetorical treatises. I also examine the ways in which Polybius behaves bot…
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
The corpus from Dionysius of Halicarnassus encompasses history, literary criticism, and rhetorical theory.
Agatharchides of Knidos
Agatharchides, born in Knidos, flourished in the last half of the second century BCE and authored works of historiography, ethnography, and geography.
Hanno, Periplus
Hanno's Periplus is the oldest account of the exploration of the west African coast.
A Likely Story
I argue that Polybius demands that a central duty of the historian should be to employ rhetoric to determine which sources are credible, define the course of past events, and convince the reader that the resulting historical narrative is true. Polybius asserts that the historian must 'teach and persuade', so I examine the use of this collocation in other prose authors and rhetorical treatises. I also examine the ways in which Polybius behaves bot…
The Art of History
A significant trend in the study of Greek and Roman historiographers is to accept that their works are to a degree both science and fiction. As scholarly interest broadens, in addition to evaluating ancient historians on the basis of the reliability of the information they record, and verifying the narratives against various elements of the material (inscriptions, excavations, numismatics), new studies are beginning to elaborate on the stylistic …
Art of History
A New Take on Emotion in Polybius (On R. Loehr, Emotion and Historiography in Polybius' Histories)
Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Geography (2 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)