Books by Emily Baragwanath
Translated by A. Verity, edited with Introduction and Notes by E. Baragwanath
Histos Supplementary Volume 6, 2017
Papers by Emily Baragwanath
NZ Herald, 2020
A defence of Latin and Classics teaching in secondary schools after the NZ Govt's misguided decis... more A defence of Latin and Classics teaching in secondary schools after the NZ Govt's misguided decision to abolish Latin and severely reduce Classics
Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The ‘Plupast’ from Herodotus to Appian, eds. Krebs & Grethlein , 2012
In this chapter I explore how characters within Herodotus' text use mythical narratives, and how ... more In this chapter I explore how characters within Herodotus' text use mythical narratives, and how those narratives intersect with and comment on the historian's own logos. A key issue throughout is the question of whether and in what ways this 'mythic' plupast differs from the historical in how it is remembered and applied by characters within the text vis-à-vis their respective internal audiences, and how it becomes useful to the historian in explicating history to his readers. The mythic plupast is pervasive in Herodotus' Histories. My approach will be to select exempla that most clearly illustrate different principles at work, focusing on instances of the plupast as used by characters, rather than the authorial plupast.
The Shaping of the Past: Greek Historiography, Poetry, and Epigraphic Memory (Histos Supplementary Volume 11), eds Constantakopoulou & Fragoulaki , 2020
This chapter examines how Herodotus' narratives of Cyrene's foundation and of Persia's more recen... more This chapter examines how Herodotus' narratives of Cyrene's foundation and of Persia's more recent imperial interest in Libya hark back to the proem and combine with the Libyan ethnography to produce an account that is essential to the Histories' overall design and to shaping one area of Greek cultural memory. These narratives probe cause and responsibility in relation to the war between Greeks and barbaroi, carrying further the Histories' dialogic program by exposing the distinctly Greek identities and assumptions readers bring to bear in explaining the past. Beyond preserving wondrous material, the Libyan logos illustrates how ethnographical awareness complicates and enriches historical interpretation.
Clio and Thalia: Attic Comedy and Historiography, eds. Baragwanath and Foster, 2017
Foster he sisters Clio and Thalia at first sight possess not family likeness, but starkly dissimi... more Foster he sisters Clio and Thalia at first sight possess not family likeness, but starkly dissimilar features: the one serious-minded and noble, a worshipper at the altar of truth; 1 the other, a lewd mistress of distortions and falsification who peddles base laughter. Yet to the observer who lingers to take a closer look, their features disclose a nities that shed light on both genres. The papers collected in this supplementary volume of Histos move beyond our well-established practice of using Attic comedy and historiography to clarify each other, and set them side by side to reflect upon how they responded and related to each other in ancient times. 2 Attic comedy and fifth-century historiography shared important themes and aims. 3 Perhaps most conspicuously, comedy taught about historical individuals and contemporary issues-famous political leaders, such as Pericles or Cleon, the sophists, the new education, generation clash, the foibles of the democracy, the courts, of policy toward the war-that connected with Thucydides' account of, and 4 For politicians of the Peloponnesian war as treated in the Old Comedians, see inter alia Strasburger ( ), Rusten ( ), Henderson ( ), esp. -, and -. Herodotus' implicit commentary on imperial Athens: Strasburger ( ); Stadter ( ) and ( ); Moles ( ).
The Epic Journey in Greek and Roman Literature, eds. Blum & Biggs, 2019
Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past, eds Chen, Baines, van der Blom, Rood, 2019
Conceptualizing the Past, Present and Future, eds. Fink & Rollinger (Melammu Symposia 9), 2018
This is an emotional, memorable passage. The moment is one of disaster, συμφορά. The image of wai... more This is an emotional, memorable passage. The moment is one of disaster, συμφορά. The image of wailing, οἰμωγή, running from the Peiraeus along the Long Walls to the city, takes us back to the wailing of Trojans at hearing of the 7 See Dillery, 1995: part III, on paradigmatic individuals and communities in Hellenica. 8 Translations are taken or adapted from those of C.L. Brownson.
Truth and History in the Ancient World eds. Ruffell and Hau , 2017
Cambridge Companion to Xenophon, 2017
Fame and Infamy Essays for Christopher Pelling on Characterization in Greek and Roman Biography and Historiography, eds. Ash, Mossman, Titchener
This paper examines Xenophon's destabilizing of gender polarities in his depiction in the Helleni... more This paper examines Xenophon's destabilizing of gender polarities in his depiction in the Hellenica of Mania of Dardanus, a widow who rules on behalf of the satrap Pharnabazus in the Persian-controlled Troad. One of the historian's strategies is to shift the attitudes of readers by modeling the response of an authoritative character within the text, and another is to evoke traditional stereotypes associated with Eastern widow rulers, only to upturn them. I argue that Xenophon's gender destabilization in the Eastern context goes hand in hand with his problematizing of the associated Greek binary conception of East/West.
Hindsight in Greek and Roman History, pp. 25-48. Edited by A. Powell. Classical Press of Wales, 2013
Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The ‘Plupast’ from Herodotus to Appian, pp. 35-56. Edited by C.B. Krebs and J. Grethlein. Cambridge University Press, 2012
In this chapter I explore how characters within Herodotus' text use mythical narratives, and how ... more In this chapter I explore how characters within Herodotus' text use mythical narratives, and how those narratives intersect with and comment on the historian's own logos. A key issue throughout is the question of whether and in what ways this 'mythic' plupast differs from the historical in how it is remembered and applied by characters within the text vis-à-vis their respective internal audiences, and how it becomes useful to the historian in explicating history to his readers. The mythic plupast is pervasive in Herodotus' Histories. My approach will be to select exempla that most clearly illustrate different principles at work, focusing on instances of the plupast as used by characters, rather than the authorial plupast. 1
Thucydides and Herodotus, pp. 316-44. Edited by E. Foster and D. Lateiner. Oxford University Press
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