Rosaria Vignolo Munson
Biographic Data
| ID | 962057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosaria Vignolo Munson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosaria Vignolo |
| FAMILY NAME | Munson |
| SIGNATURE | MUNSON R V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swarthmore College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Time and Foresight in Thucydides
This chapter examines statements in Thucydides’ work that predict or foreshadow the future (prolepses), placing them in the context of a wider study of the narratological structure of the History as a whole. It analyses predictions made by the narrator himself (including 1.22.4’s famous claim about the future utility of the work), as well as the (often unreliable) claims that characters in the History make about the future course of events. The c…
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…
Freedom and culture in Herodotus
Fifth century Greeks regarded freedom as a defining mark of their ethnic identity, but Herodotus attributes love of freedom also to foreign peoples. This paper examines this historian's understanding of what freedom means to both Greeks and non-Greeks. It reconciles Herodotus’ cultural relativism, expressed in the statement ‘nomos (custom/law/culture) is king of all’), with his rejection of autocratic monarchy among non-Greek peoples and particul…
Thucydides and Myth
This essay shows how in Thucydides, and especially in the Archaeology, the mythological periods of Greek history become the subject of argumentation, rather than narrative exposition. It also points out the absence of references to myth and mythological figures from the speeches of the History. By contrast, Thucydides recorded the past and present formation of myths—for instance, the myth of the tyrant slayers Harmodius and Aristogiton—and the so…
Herodotus and Ethnicity
In his treatment of the Argive descent of the Macedonian kings, of the Pelasgian origin of the Athenians, of the hybridity of the Ionians, and of several instances of kinship between barbarians and Greeks, Herodotus uses both scientific methods of historical research and mythical traditions to promote an ideological program of devaluing ancestry as a fundamental and objective index of ethnicity. Rather than centering on the issue of origins, Hero…
Herodotus and the Heroic Age: The Case of Minos
In the fifth century, traditional myths about gods and heroes of a remote age still constituted a shared cultural language for speaking about a variety of more or less specific current issues of a philosophical, ethical, social, and political nature. Other than tragedy and epinician poetry, we should especially remember the role of myth in Thucydides, whose ‘Archaeology’ sets down his fundamental, and ideologically charged, view of history. It is…
Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus (Oxford Classical Monographs)
Who Are Herodotus' Persians
In analyzing how Herodotus' descriptions of foreign societies reflect Greek assumptions and prejudices, we have sometimes failed to recognize the extent to which he reports persuasive and historically valid information. This is particularly true of the Persians for whom Herodotus appears to have had access to very good sources, especially perhaps among Medes and Persians living in Asia Minor. This paper argues that Herodotus' representation of Pe…
The trouble with the Ionians: Herodotus and the beginning of the Ionian Revolt (5.28–38.1)
THE LARGER CONTEXT Placed at the very centre of Herodotus' work (5.28–6.42), the Ionian Revolt of 499–494 bc plays a pivotal role, both chronologically and causally, linking the Persians' Eastern campaigns to their invasions of Greece. It also represents a crucial moment in Herodotus' history of the Ionians, which spans the whole work from beginning to end. The Ionians jump-start the Histories , one might say, and they do so because they find the…
An alternate world: Herodotus and Italy
Herodotus of Thurii According to Aristotle, the first sentence of the Histories introduced it as the work 'of Herodotus of Thurii'. Thurii was a panhellenic colony founded during Herodotus' lifetime (probably 444/443 BCE) under the guidance of Athens, initially by invitation of the Sybarites, on the site of the former Achaean city of Sybaris. It represented, to a great extent, a brilliant communal experiment. After the departure of the old Sybari…
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…
Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus
The Homeric Narrator
Music in Greek and Roman Culture
The Celebratory Purpose of Herodotus: The Story of Arion in Histories 1.23-24
The first sentence of the Histories , which identifies and justifies the work as a whole, reveals the author's double aim of celebration and explanation: This is the exposition of the research of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, (1) lest the events of men become faded with time, and the great and wonderful deeds performed by both Greeks and Barbarians be deprived of glory, (2) [the exposition of] among other things how they came to war with one anothe…
Who Are Herodotus' Persians
In analyzing how Herodotus' descriptions of foreign societies reflect Greek assumptions and prejudices, we have sometimes failed to recognize the extent to which he reports persuasive and historically valid information. This is particularly true of the Persians for whom Herodotus appears to have had access to very good sources, especially perhaps among Medes and Persians living in Asia Minor. This paper argues that Herodotus' representation of Pe…
The Celebratory Purpose of Herodotus: The Story of Arion in Histories 1.23-24
The first sentence of the Histories , which identifies and justifies the work as a whole, reveals the author's double aim of celebration and explanation: This is the exposition of the research of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, (1) lest the events of men become faded with time, and the great and wonderful deeds performed by both Greeks and Barbarians be deprived of glory, (2) [the exposition of] among other things how they came to war with one anothe…
The Celebratory Purpose of Herodotus: The Story of Arion in Histories 1.23-24
The first sentence of the Histories , which identifies and justifies the work as a whole, reveals the author's double aim of celebration and explanation: This is the exposition of the research of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, (1) lest the events of men become faded with time, and the great and wonderful deeds performed by both Greeks and Barbarians be deprived of glory, (2) [the exposition of] among other things how they came to war with one anothe…
Music in Greek and Roman Culture
The Homeric Narrator
Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus
An alternate world: Herodotus and Italy
Herodotus of Thurii According to Aristotle, the first sentence of the Histories introduced it as the work 'of Herodotus of Thurii'. Thurii was a panhellenic colony founded during Herodotus' lifetime (probably 444/443 BCE) under the guidance of Athens, initially by invitation of the Sybarites, on the site of the former Achaean city of Sybaris. It represented, to a great extent, a brilliant communal experiment. After the departure of the old Sybari…
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…
The trouble with the Ionians: Herodotus and the beginning of the Ionian Revolt (5.28–38.1)
THE LARGER CONTEXT Placed at the very centre of Herodotus' work (5.28–6.42), the Ionian Revolt of 499–494 bc plays a pivotal role, both chronologically and causally, linking the Persians' Eastern campaigns to their invasions of Greece. It also represents a crucial moment in Herodotus' history of the Ionians, which spans the whole work from beginning to end. The Ionians jump-start the Histories , one might say, and they do so because they find the…
Who Are Herodotus' Persians
In analyzing how Herodotus' descriptions of foreign societies reflect Greek assumptions and prejudices, we have sometimes failed to recognize the extent to which he reports persuasive and historically valid information. This is particularly true of the Persians for whom Herodotus appears to have had access to very good sources, especially perhaps among Medes and Persians living in Asia Minor. This paper argues that Herodotus' representation of Pe…
Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus (Oxford Classical Monographs)
Herodotus and the Heroic Age: The Case of Minos
In the fifth century, traditional myths about gods and heroes of a remote age still constituted a shared cultural language for speaking about a variety of more or less specific current issues of a philosophical, ethical, social, and political nature. Other than tragedy and epinician poetry, we should especially remember the role of myth in Thucydides, whose ‘Archaeology’ sets down his fundamental, and ideologically charged, view of history. It is…
Herodotus and Ethnicity
In his treatment of the Argive descent of the Macedonian kings, of the Pelasgian origin of the Athenians, of the hybridity of the Ionians, and of several instances of kinship between barbarians and Greeks, Herodotus uses both scientific methods of historical research and mythical traditions to promote an ideological program of devaluing ancestry as a fundamental and objective index of ethnicity. Rather than centering on the issue of origins, Hero…
Thucydides and Myth
This essay shows how in Thucydides, and especially in the Archaeology, the mythological periods of Greek history become the subject of argumentation, rather than narrative exposition. It also points out the absence of references to myth and mythological figures from the speeches of the History. By contrast, Thucydides recorded the past and present formation of myths—for instance, the myth of the tyrant slayers Harmodius and Aristogiton—and the so…
Freedom and culture in Herodotus
Fifth century Greeks regarded freedom as a defining mark of their ethnic identity, but Herodotus attributes love of freedom also to foreign peoples. This paper examines this historian's understanding of what freedom means to both Greeks and non-Greeks. It reconciles Herodotus’ cultural relativism, expressed in the statement ‘nomos (custom/law/culture) is king of all’), with his rejection of autocratic monarchy among non-Greek peoples and particul…
Time and Foresight in Thucydides
This chapter examines statements in Thucydides’ work that predict or foreshadow the future (prolepses), placing them in the context of a wider study of the narratological structure of the History as a whole. It analyses predictions made by the narrator himself (including 1.22.4’s famous claim about the future utility of the work), as well as the (often unreliable) claims that characters in the History make about the future course of events. The c…
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…
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