10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOROGRAPHY»
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horography in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
horography and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Nature of History in Ancient Greece and Rome
What Jacoby urged for Greek horography may well apply to the Latins. The
general familiarity of the Romans with Greece and Greek horography, which was
prolific, may not unnaturally have suggested that Roman local history required ...
2
Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and ...
The most striking characteristic of Roman historiography was its adherence to the
annalistic form, which itself was a form of horography, or local history. Such
history dealt only with events in the community and those external events that ...
Kurt A. Raaflaub, Mark Toher,
1993
3
A dictionary of science, literature and art, ed. by W.T. ...
HOROGRAPHY. Horograpny (Gt. fipo, hour, and ypd<pu, I write). The art of
drawing bour-lines, or of constructing dials. Horologium Florae (Lat.). A time-table
of flowers, formed by noting the hours when they respectively open and close.
Dictionary, William Thomas Brande,
1866
4
Acts: An Exegetical Commentary : Volume 1: Introduction and ...
Ģ*2(horography).[140]. One kind of local history was local cult history, preserved
at times in inscriptions.[141] Romans traditionally cast theirlocal history in the
formof annals, a yearbyyear narration form thatRoman historians suchas Tacitus
...
5
Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography
... use of polemic in self-definition, 224 imperial, absent in Latin between Tacitus
and Ammianus, 32, 217; concern with bias, 166-70; restricted focus, 32, 86-95
local (horography), 24, 53; and priests, 1u-12; genre of historiography, defined, 2;
...
6
A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography
Thus contemporary history, itself a sub-genre, could have sub-categories of its
own: war monographs, perpetual or continuous histories, and individualcentered
histories. The final sub-genre for Jacoby was horography or local history.
7
A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing
Roman histo— riography is thus in some ways connected to a branch of Greek
historiography sometimes called “horography” (from Greek horos, “year”), a kind
of annalistic local history. Roman “horography,” however, was always painted on
a ...
8
Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography
Fornara (1983) 22 describes horography as “the Hellenic side of ethnography.” 8
The most secure measurement is provided by F 26a = Diod. Sic. 13.81.4—84.6, a
description of Acragas as it stood in 406; Diodorus attributes it to Book 15 of ...
Christopher A. Baron,
2012
9
Literary Texts and the Roman Historian
The initial plan of the work was ten volumes to be organized as follows in
accordance to his theory: I testimonia and Hecataeus II genealogy III
ethnography IV Greek contemporary history V chronography VI horography VII
biography and ...
10
The New Testament in Its Literary Environment
Hippocrates, Airs, Waters, Places), geography was a presupposition for
historiography. Local History Local history (or horography, "annalistic writing"),
which originated during the late fifth century B.C. in Athens, narrated the
parochial annual ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOROGRAPHY»
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Keeping history alive like clockwork
“I'm more into the golden age of mechanical horography,” said King. King emphasizes that his work on the clock has to do a lot for the students. «Purdue Exponent, Jun 14»