The Beginning of Chronography
Hellanicus’ Hiereiai
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23739117 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Astrid Möller (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Pages | 241-262 |
| Publication date | 2001-11-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The historian's craft in the age of Herodotus (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780199240500.003.0012 |
| OpenAlex | W4388392603 |
| ISBN | 9780199240500 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
WHEN theGreeks began to write historiography, they structured the past in a variety of ways, according to the layout and purpose of their work. In Herodotus time does not exist independently of the narrative. He did not arrange the received traditions so as to create a continuous narrative by a separately worked out chrono logy, but made extensive use of flashbacks and digressions to keep together the different focuses of his interests. Thucydides, by con trast, arranged his whole narrative according to the summers and winters of particular years. Here time serves as an autonomous structure. Besides the work of these two great historians, there ex isted a different kind of historiography which attempted to string events along the chain of calendar years, identified by eponymous officials or priests, hence KaT’ EvtavT6v. Here, time dominated the structure of the historical narrative. Unfortunately, works of this kind of historiography have only come down to us in fragments, making it difficult to determine their original shape. It is often impossible to say whether a particular work was written on an an nalistic pattern, i.e. on a year-by-year structure,2 or was simply a kind of historical narrative using some chronographical dates.
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| Citations per year | 0.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2024 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |