Non-Fiction Books:

Misinformation, Disinformation and Propaganda in Greek Historiography

Click to share your rating 0 ratings (0.0/5.0 average) Thanks for your vote!

Format:

Hardback
$337.00
Releases

Pre-order to reserve stock from our first shipment. Your credit card will not be charged until your order is ready to ship.

Available for pre-order now
Free Delivery with Primate
Join Now

Free 14 day free trial, cancel anytime.

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

4 payments of $84.25 with Afterpay Learn more

6 weekly interest-free payments of $56.17 with Laybuy Learn more

Pre-order Price Guarantee

If you pre-order an item and the price drops before the release date, you'll pay the lowest price. This happens automatically when you pre-order and pay by credit card or pickup.

If paying by PayPal, Afterpay, Laybuy, Zip, Klarna, POLi, Online EFTPOS or internet banking, and the price drops after you have paid, you can ask for the difference to be refunded.

If Mighty Ape's price changes before release, you'll pay the lowest price.

Availability

This product will be released on

Delivering to:

It should arrive:

  • 13-20 February using International Courier

Description

Mindful of the present state of discourse on ancient Greek historiography, this edited volume explores the major themes of pursuing factuality, managing witness/source bias, falling into historical error and creating or confronting propaganda. Even the greatest ancient historians, striving for factuality and truthfulness, must commence from subjectivity. Their works, when studied closely, reveal biases and conceptual or ideological distortions, their own and others’. For this reason, Misinformation, Disinformation and Propaganda in Greek Historiography evaluates the issues which stand in the way of factuality in historical texts and records. The contributors, all experts in the field, explore and question the accuracy of the historiography in question; the ancient author’s fidelity to their sources; and the evidence presented in relation to inherited oral traditions. In this way, the ancient author’s methodology is evaluated in terms of its probability, the awareness of its cultural variation and the influences which we can deduce within the texts. This volume presents an important contribution to the study of what constitutes fact and fiction within ancient Greek historiography.

Author Biography:

Thomas Figueira is Distinguished Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Rutgers University, USA. He is co-editor of Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus (2020), co-author of Wisdom from the Ancients: Enduring Business Lessons from Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar (2001) and author of The Power of Money: Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire (1998). Rosaria Vignolo Munson is J. Archer and Helen C. Turner Professor of Classics at Swarthmore College, USA. She is author of Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Herodotus (2013), Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Language of Barbarians (2005) and Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus (2001). She is also the co-editor (with Carolyn Dewald) of Herodotus, Histories Book I (2022).
Release date NZ
February 6th, 2025
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Rosaria Vignolo Munson
  • Edited by Thomas Figueira
Illustrations
10 bw illus
Pages
288
Dimensions
156x234x25
ISBN-13
9781350358713
Product ID
38513591

Customer previews

Nobody has previewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Preview

Help & options

Filed under...