Authority and History: Ancient Models, Modern Questions

by Juliana Bastos Marques (Editor), Federico Santangelo (Editor)

Overview

This book examines authority in discourse from ancient to modern historians, while also presenting instances of current subversions of the classical rhetorical ethos. Ancient rhetoric set out the rules of authority in discourse, and directly affected the claims of Greek and Roman historians to truth. These working principles were consolidated in modern tradition, but not without modifications. The contemporary world, in its turban, subverts in many new ways the weight of the author's claim to legitimacy and truth, through the active role of the audiences.

How have the ancient claims to authority worked and changed from their own times to our post-modern, digital world? Online uses and outreach displays of the classical past, especially through social media, have altered the balance of the authority traditionally bestowed upon the ancients, demonstrating what the linguistic turban has shown: the role of the reader is as important as that of the writer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350269484
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/25/2024
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Juliana Bastos Marques is Professor of Ancient History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State (UNIRIO), Brazil. She works on ancient historiography, historical theory, and public history. She is the author of Tradição e renovações da identidade romana em Tito Lívio e Tácito (2012), and is currently researching aspects of classical reception in Brazilian history.

Federico Santangelo is Professor of Ancient History at Newcastle University, UK. He works on the history of the Roman world, ancient historiography, and the history of classical scholarship. He is the author of Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2013) and Roma repubblicana: Una storia in quaranta vite (2019).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction - Juliana Bastos Marques (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Federico Santangelo (Newcastle University, UK)

Part I: Ancient Models
1. Authority and Authenticity – John Marincola (Florida State University, USA)
2. Poetry as History: The Authority of Lucan as a Historian – Leni Ribeiro Leite (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil)
3. Truth and History – Roger Chartier (Collège de France, Paris, France)
4. 1. The Time of Restitution of All Things: Past as Future in Michael Servetus– Elaine Cristine Sartorelli (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)

Part II: Modern Questions
5. Classics and Western civilization: The Troubling History of an Authoritative Narrative – Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison University, USA)
6. 'The Society that Separates its Scholars from its Keyboard Warriors…': Tracking Thucydides on Twitter – Neville Morley (University of Exeter, UK)
7. Is Livy a Good Wikipedian? AuthorityandAudienceinAncientHistoriography and Contemporary Anonymous Writing – Juliana Bastos Marques (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
8. The New Agora? Online Communities and a New Rhetoric – Catalina Popescu (Texas Tech University, USA)
9. Classical Literature and Contemporary Classics – Ayelet Haimson Lushkov (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Notes
Bibliography
Index