This thesis will trace the origin and development of the term "Sacred War" in the corpus of extant Greek literature. This term has been commonly applied by modern scholars to four wars which took place in ancient Greece between the sixth and fourth centuries B. C. The modern use of "the attribute "Sacred War" to refer to these four wars in particular raises two questions. First, did the ancient historians give all four of these wars the title "Sacred War?" And second, what justified the use of this title only for certain conflicts? In order to resolve the first of these questions, it is necessary to examine in what terms the ancient historians referred to these wars. As a result of this examination, it is clear that only two of the modern series of "Sacred Wars" (the so-called Second and Third Sacred Wars) were actually given this title in antiquity. The other two wars (the so-called Second and Third Sacred Wars), although they were evidently associated by the ancients with the "Sacred Wars," were not given this attribution. Consequently, the habit of grouping all four wars together as "Sacred Wars" is modern. Nevertheless, the fact that the ancients did see some connection between these wars does justify this modern classification to some degree. Once this conclusion had been reached, it became possible to proceed to the second of the problems presented in this thesis, namely the justification for the application of the title "Sacred War" to two specific conflicts. In order to achieve this aim, those conflicts labelled "Sacred Wars" by the ancient historians were compared to two categories of test cases: the other two conflicts classified as "Sacred Wars" by modern scholars and conflicts which share elements in common with "Sacred Wars" but which are not given this attribution by ancient or modern authorities. In the course of this comparison, I discovered that little differentiated the so-called "Sacred Wars" from the non-"Sacred Wars" and that all of these latter conflicts appear equally worthy of the title as those which were in fact given this attribution. The deciding factor in the classification of a certain conflict as a "Sacred War," as a result, lies not in the specific elements making up its constitution but rather in the political circumstances surrounding it. The two conflicts labelled by the ancients as "Sacred Wars" were given this title by contemporary powers in order to justify military interference in the political affairs of other states which might otherwise have been considered unnecessary. Thus, the term "Sacred War" arose originally as the result of an effective propaganda campaign. / Arts, Faculty of / Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, Department of / Graduate

What are political thinkers doing with their words when they write a text, engage in a debate, or give a speech? We propose a "computational political theory", pairing recent breakthroughs in computational linguistics with the hermeneutic practices of intellectual history, as a set of tools for mapping out the political-discursive fields within which ideas circulate. We begin by showing, via a series of historical case studies, how a particular class of computational-linguistic algorithms called word embeddings are able to capture subtle differences in how authors employ certain contested terms (liberty, freedom, sovereignty, etc.) by explicitly modeling both the words and the contexts they're used in across a corpus of texts. We then demonstrate how the results of these embedding models can shed light on important questions in the history of political thought, by performing two in-depth studies of the origins and trajectories of Marxism from the 19th to the 20th century. In the first study, we use these models to trace the construction of Marx's thought out of the raw intellectual materials of 18th and early-19th century philosophy. We combine a new, comprehensive corpus of Marx's complete works from 1835 to 1883 ($N > 1200$) with a large sample ($N = 250$) of prominent 18th and early-19th century texts to measure conceptual distance between Marx's works and various schools of 19th-century thought (political economists, socialists, and Hegelian philosophers) over time. Two key breaks emerge in Marx's writings: (a) they become less Hegelian as he is exposed to Paris' brand of working-class-oriented socialism between 1843 and 1845, then (b) become more focused on issues of political economy over the remainder of his life in London, from 1849 onwards. Our second study turns from the origins to the illocutionary impacts of Marx's published works, assessing his influence on the broader socialist discourse of the 19th century using a corpus of \textit{post}-1850 socialist texts ($N = 200$). We find that Marx's semantic trajectory is mirrored, with a lag, by changes in the semantic trajectory of European socialist thought. This discourse shifts away from moralistic and Hegelian themes and towards a more positivistic political-economic vocabulary, especially after Marx's rise to public prominence in the wake of the 1871 Paris Commune. Our findings thus trace out, within the computationally-inferred ideological field of 19th-century socialist thought, how Marx's unique blend of German philosophy, French socialism, and British political economy defeated would-be competitors and established his thought as the default language of European socialism by the time of Engels' death in 1895. The dissertation thus demonstrates the utility of modern context-sensitive language models as tools for historical research, providing a framework for their use in developing, testing, and revising our understandings of key questions in the history of political thought.

Há uma leitura particular da identidade no mundo romano, entre tantas possíveis, que deriva da tradição historiográfica latina. Os historiadores romanos criaram um discurso específico do passado, que buscava uma uniformidade, mas também demonstrava suas peculiaridades distintas de acordo com as circunstâncias de suas próprias realidades. Pretendemos aqui discutir o caso de dois deles, Tito Lívio e Tácito, para compreendermos o que eles entendiam por \"ser romano\", baseado nas premissas da interação entre o gênero historiográfico e os contextos contemporâneos dos autores. As dificuldades ao reconstruir este segundo tópico são um tema comum nos estudos sobre Tito Lívio e Tácito, concentrando-se principalmente na relação deles com os imperadores, mas aqui tencionamos fazer uma relação desse ponto com as singularidades das suas reconstruções do passado, que eram baseadas num conjunto relativamente regular de regras da narrativa. Os novos caminhos nos estudos sobre identidades no mundo antigo trazem interessantes leituras para esse problema, pois ajudam a renovar a análise de, no recorte que escolhemos, quatro dos principais conceitos que definem a identidade romana em Tito Lívio e Tácito: concordia, pietas, fides e mos maiorum. Finalmente, tanto o processo de reconstrução do passado através de uma memória compartilhada e regulada quanto a busca constante de padrões morais fixos revelam, em última instância, as mudanças pelas quais passa a cidade de Roma no desenvolvimento do principado, de forma que essa identidade romana acaba por fazer da própria cidade um símbolo. Há uma leitura particular da identidade no mundo romano, entre tantas possíveis, que deriva da tradição historiográfica latina. Os historiadores romanos criaram um discurso específico do passado, que buscava uma uniformidade, mas também demonstrava suas peculiaridades distintas de acordo com as circunstâncias de suas próprias realidades. Pretendemos aqui discutir o caso de dois deles, Tito Lívio e Tácito, para compreendermos o que eles entendiam por \"ser romano\", baseado nas premissas da interação entre o gênero historiográfico e os contextos contemporâneos dos autores. As dificuldades ao reconstruir este segundo tópico são um tema comum nos estudos sobre Tito Lívio e Tácito, concentrando-se principalmente na relação deles com os imperadores, mas aqui tencionamos fazer uma relação desse ponto com as singularidades das suas reconstruções do passado, que eram baseadas num conjunto relativamente regular de regras da narrativa. Os novos caminhos nos estudos sobre identidades no mundo antigo trazem interessantes leituras para esse problema, pois ajudam a renovar a análise de, no recorte que escolhemos, quatro dos principais conceitos que definem a identidade romana em Tito Lívio e Tácito: concordia, pietas, fides e mos maiorum. Finalmente, tanto o processo de reconstrução do passado através de uma memória compartilhada e regulada quanto a busca constante de padrões morais fixos revelam, em última instância, as mudanças pelas quais passa a cidade de Roma no desenvolvimento do principado, de forma que essa identidade romana acaba por fazer da própria cidade um símbolo. / There is one particular reading of identity in the Roman world, among many possible others, that derives from the tradition of Latin historiography. Roman historians have created a specific discourse on the past, aiming at uniformity but also showing their distinctive peculiarities due to the circumstances of their own times. We aim here to discuss the case of two of them, Livy and Tacitus, with a goal to understand their views on what \"being Roman\" meant, based on the premises of the interplay between the historiographical genre and the authors\' contemporary contexts. The difficulties when trying to reconstruct this second topic are a standard issue in the studies about Livy and Tacitus, focusing primarily on their relationship with the emperors, but here we intend to make a connection of this issue with the singularities of their reconstructions of the past, which were based on a fairly regular set of writing rules. The new trends on the question of identities in the Ancient world add to this inquiry, helping to refresh the analysis of, as we chose, four concepts that help to define the Roman identity in Livy and Tacitus: concordia, pietas, fides and mos maiorum. In the end, both the process of reconstruction of the past through a shared and regulated memory and the constant call for a fixed set of moral standards ultimately reveal the changes that the city of Rome goes through under the development of the Principate, so that this Roman identity end up making a symbol out of the city itself.

Há uma leitura particular da identidade no mundo romano, entre tantas possíveis, que deriva da tradição historiográfica latina. Os historiadores romanos criaram um discurso específico do passado, que buscava uma uniformidade, mas também demonstrava suas peculiaridades distintas de acordo com as circunstâncias de suas próprias realidades. Pretendemos aqui discutir o caso de dois deles, Tito Lívio e Tácito, para compreendermos o que eles entendiam por \"ser romano\", baseado nas premissas da interação entre o gênero historiográfico e os contextos contemporâneos dos autores. As dificuldades ao reconstruir este segundo tópico são um tema comum nos estudos sobre Tito Lívio e Tácito, concentrando-se principalmente na relação deles com os imperadores, mas aqui tencionamos fazer uma relação desse ponto com as singularidades das suas reconstruções do passado, que eram baseadas num conjunto relativamente regular de regras da narrativa. Os novos caminhos nos estudos sobre identidades no mundo antigo trazem interessantes leituras para esse problema, pois ajudam a renovar a análise de, no recorte que escolhemos, quatro dos principais conceitos que definem a identidade romana em Tito Lívio e Tácito: concordia, pietas, fides e mos maiorum. Finalmente, tanto o processo de reconstrução do passado através de uma memória compartilhada e regulada quanto a busca constante de padrões morais fixos revelam, em última instância, as mudanças pelas quais passa a cidade de Roma no desenvolvimento do principado, de forma que essa identidade romana acaba por fazer da própria cidade um símbolo. Há uma leitura particular da identidade no mundo romano, entre tantas possíveis, que deriva da tradição historiográfica latina. Os historiadores romanos criaram um discurso específico do passado, que buscava uma uniformidade, mas também demonstrava suas peculiaridades distintas de acordo com as circunstâncias de suas próprias realidades. Pretendemos aqui discutir o caso de dois deles, Tito Lívio e Tácito, para compreendermos o que eles entendiam por \"ser romano\", baseado nas premissas da interação entre o gênero historiográfico e os contextos contemporâneos dos autores. As dificuldades ao reconstruir este segundo tópico são um tema comum nos estudos sobre Tito Lívio e Tácito, concentrando-se principalmente na relação deles com os imperadores, mas aqui tencionamos fazer uma relação desse ponto com as singularidades das suas reconstruções do passado, que eram baseadas num conjunto relativamente regular de regras da narrativa. Os novos caminhos nos estudos sobre identidades no mundo antigo trazem interessantes leituras para esse problema, pois ajudam a renovar a análise de, no recorte que escolhemos, quatro dos principais conceitos que definem a identidade romana em Tito Lívio e Tácito: concordia, pietas, fides e mos maiorum. Finalmente, tanto o processo de reconstrução do passado através de uma memória compartilhada e regulada quanto a busca constante de padrões morais fixos revelam, em última instância, as mudanças pelas quais passa a cidade de Roma no desenvolvimento do principado, de forma que essa identidade romana acaba por fazer da própria cidade um símbolo. / There is one particular reading of identity in the Roman world, among many possible others, that derives from the tradition of Latin historiography. Roman historians have created a specific discourse on the past, aiming at uniformity but also showing their distinctive peculiarities due to the circumstances of their own times. We aim here to discuss the case of two of them, Livy and Tacitus, with a goal to understand their views on what \"being Roman\" meant, based on the premises of the interplay between the historiographical genre and the authors\' contemporary contexts. The difficulties when trying to reconstruct this second topic are a standard issue in the studies about Livy and Tacitus, focusing primarily on their relationship with the emperors, but here we intend to make a connection of this issue with the singularities of their reconstructions of the past, which were based on a fairly regular set of writing rules. The new trends on the question of identities in the Ancient world add to this inquiry, helping to refresh the analysis of, as we chose, four concepts that help to define the Roman identity in Livy and Tacitus: concordia, pietas, fides and mos maiorum. In the end, both the process of reconstruction of the past through a shared and regulated memory and the constant call for a fixed set of moral standards ultimately reveal the changes that the city of Rome goes through under the development of the Principate, so that this Roman identity end up making a symbol out of the city itself.

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Thesis (MMus (Music))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Current musicological discourses in South Africa seldom engage with Afrikaans content and contributions, even though there is an acknowledged large body of writing on music in Afrikaans. These writings could significantly inform music and general historiographies in South Africa. This study discusses music-related articles in the following Afrikaans magazines and newspapers of the early twentieth century: Die Brandwag (1910-1921), Die Burger (1915-1948), Die Huisgenoot (1916-1948), Die Nuwe Brandwag (1929-1933), Die Brandwag (1937-1948) and Die Transvaler (1937-1948). The subject matter of a large proportion of these music-related articles comprises the history of Western European music. This includes biographies of composers and histories of stylistic periods, genres and instruments. Despite the physical distance between Europe and Africa, Afrikaners‘ attraction to Europe borders at times on a feeling of belonging to this tradition. This cosmopolitan notion of belonging has received little attention compared to themes of race, language and nationalism in twentieth-century South African historiography. A neglected Afrikaans discourse on music, however, presents an opportunity to explore the possibilities of cosmopolitanism in a further interpretation of Afrikaner identity and understanding of South African history. It is for this reason that the current study is primarily concerned with tracing the role of musical discourse in Afrikaner society between 1910 and 1948 by investigating notions of cosmopolitanism. The two theoretical strands of cosmopolitanism that will guide this study concern the work of Friedrich Meinecke (an early twentieth-century German scholar), and Kwame Anthony Appiah (who is still active in the field of philosophy). Meinecke‘s work is mainly concerned with the role cosmopolitan values played in the development of the National State, with specific reference to Germany from the late eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century. What attracts Appiah to cosmopolitanism is the freedom it provides for the individual to create her own identity. To be a citizen of the world need not be a rootless existence, but allows anyone to be a patriot of the country of her own choice. Meinecke‘s and Appiah‘s theories of cosmopolitanism, and their different positioning of the intersecting points between the spheres of the individual, the nation and the globe, will provide two theoretical frameworks informing the present author‘s attempt to interpret some of the materials collated for this study. The present writer believes that cosmopolitanism will prove an appropriate theory to uncover some elements of Afrikaner identity that has hitherto been ignored. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Ten spyte van die omvang van Afrikaanse tekste oor musiek is daar in die hedendaagse tyd min musiekwetenskaplike diskoerse in Suid-Afrika wat bemoeienis maak met inhoude en bydraes wat in Afrikaans gemaak is. Hierdie Afrikaanse tekste besit die potensiaal om nie net musiekhistoriografie nie, maar ook algemene historiografie in Suid-Afrika meer geskakeerd in te klee. Die studie handel oor die musiekartikels in die volgende Afrikaanse tydskrifte en dagblaaie van die vroeg twintigste eeu: Die Brandwag (1910-1921), Die Burger (1915-1948), Die Huisgenoot (1916-1948), Die Nuwe Brandwag (1929-1933), Die Brandwag (1937-1948) en Die Transvaler (1937-1948) 'n Groot gedeelte van hierdie musiekverwante artikels bespreek onderwerpe uit die geskiedenis van Wes-Europese kunsmusiek. Dit sluit onder meer in komponis-biografieë, sowel as geskiedenisse van stilistiese periodes, genres en instrumente. Die Afrikaner se belangstelling in Europa grens soms aan =n gevoel van Europese solidariteit, ten spyte van die fisieke afstand tussen Europa en Afrika. Hierdie kosmopolitiese denkwyse verdwyn dikwels op die agtergrond ten gunste van ander temas soos ras, taal en nasionalisme in twintigste eeuse Suid-Afrikaanse musiekhistoriografie. 'n Verwaarloosde Afrikaanse diskoers oor musiek bied 'n geleentheid om moontlikhede van kosmopolitisme te ondersoek in 'n verdere interpretasie van Afrikaner identiteit en Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis. Dit is om hierdie rede dat die huidige studie idees van kosmopolitisme wil ondersoek ten einde die rol van die musiekdiskoers in die Afrikaner gemeenskap tussen 1910 en 1948 te bepaal. Die huidige studie steun op twee teoretiese modelle van kosmopolitisme soos afgelei uit die werk van Friedriech Meinecke ('n Duitse geskiedkundige van die vroeg twintigste eeu) en Kwame Anthony Appiah (hedendaagse filosoof). Meinecke se werk fokus hoofsaaklik op die rol wat kosmopolitiese waardes gespeel het in die ontwikkeling van die nasie-staat, met spesifieke verwysing na Duitsland van die laat agtiende eeu tot die laat negentiende eeu. Wat Appiah aantrek tot die idee van kosmopolitisme is die vryheid wat dit aan die individu bied om haar eie identiteit te skep. Om 'n wêreldburger te wees dui nie noodwendig op 'n ongewortelde bestaan nie, maar laat enigeen toe om 'n patrioot te wees in die land van haar keuse. Meinecke en Appiah se teorieë van kosmopolitisme, hul onderskeie posisionerings van die individu, die nasie en die wêreld en die snypunte tussen hierdie sfere, bied twee teoretiese raamwerke vir die huidige skrywer se interpretasies van die materiaal wat vir hierdie studie versamel is. Die argument word gemaak dat kosmopolitisme 'n gepasde teorie bied om voorheen geïgnoreerde elemente van Afrikaner identiteit te ontbloot.

Thesis (MDram (Drama))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009. / In this thesis I examine the way in which fictionalised and dramatised narratives in theatre have the potential to create significant alternative narratives that can potentially be regarded as a crucial part of history writing. This is done through a critical analysis of three historically orientated dramatic texts, Ubu and the Truth Commission by Jane Taylor (1998), Copenhagen by Michael Frayn (1998) and Ghetto by Joshua Sobol (1984). I investigate how these playwrights narrativised history by fictionalising and dramatising events and people of historical importance, and how each of these plays individually contributes to the debate on narrative in historiographical discourse. Drawing on Hayden White’s theory on the poetic and narrative nature of history writing, as represented by his definitive work, Metahistory, I explore different theories and works on the philosophy of history to determine the precise nature of narrative itself as well as the historical work. Chapter Two is therefore an exploration of White’s philosophy on the ‘historical imagination’ as he describes his theory on the narrative and poetic nature of the historical document. In addition, this chapter provides an introduction to narrative in a theatrical text. This is done in order to examine how we can apply White’s theory to investigate narrative in theatre that focuses on historical events for the purpose of possibly including the dramatic narrative in the broader discourse on narrative in history writing. In this I highlight the theatrical narrative as a specific practice of language beginning with an interlude on representation in theatre. This is applied as the basis for examining the three texts in subsequent chapters. There are both general and more specific advantages in pursuing these arguments. Firstly, it may generate an understanding of some of the broad claims and problems bearing on the impact that literary theory is said to have on a subject which is not normally considered to fall within its domain, namely history writing. The work of Hayden White has been singled out to represent these claims, as he challenges the traditional distinction between history and literature. As a result, we are made aware of those arguments which set out to show that there are aspects of historical writing which are often ignored or which we generally overlook. An example of such an aspect that serve as the focus of this study is the narrative in historical explanation, representing the “ineluctably poetic nature of the historical work” (White 1983:xi). As such theatre can be an important tool in the process of constructing memory and alternative narratives, arguing that these narrativised histories could provide a “countermemory to the dominant narrative of the official histories” (Hutchison 1999:3). The theatrical texts singled out demonstrate that these alternative narratives in the theatrical texts function as a discourse of multi-levelled stories that engage with the complexities of the society and the complexities present in the context of the plays, making a contribution to the practice of historiography itself.

In the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, the Middle Ages provide several of the most important historical reference points for national identity. This thesis analyses how this period was given its significance. It studies the presentation of several medieval figures through historiography from their own lifetime to the present, how they entered collective memory and a national narrative of history, and how the symbolic values attributed to them shifted according to changing political needs. In addition, it identifies those figures that were forgotten, so as to explore the mechanisms of historiographical selection. The purported founder of Luxembourg is the tenth-century Count Sigefroid, who was (wrongly) regarded as the first ‘count of Luxembourg’ by the late sixteenth century. In his posthumous career he became the builder of the local castle and city, the creator of the country and father of the nation. He is often joined by his mythological fish-tailed wife Melusine, borrowed from a late medieval French roman that already hints at links to the rulers of Luxembourg. The two founders are linked to later themes through Countess Ermesinde. She was a thirteenth-century ruler, rediscovered by nineteenth-century liberals as an early precursor to their political ideals, while a group of Belgian Jesuits used her to foster a pilgrimage tradition. Historiography of the past two hundred years preferred her persona rather than her two husbands’ for creating a continuity within the different medieval dynasties, adding to their national character. Her descendant John of Bohemia was transformed quickly into the national hero par excellence. This process had its origin in late medieval literature where his ‘heroic’ death at the battle of Crécy is remembered. His tomb within the city of Luxembourg helped to keep him in local memory, while the loss of his remains to Prussia in the early nineteenth century created simmering discontent that lasted until their recovery in 1946. Interestingly, John stands for the pinnacle of a glorious age, whereas his successor Emperor Sigismund tended to embody the miserable decline of an era, despite having been endowed with many crowns and titles. This thesis borrows some of its theoretical framework from the study of lieux de mémoire, and makes use of a broad range of different sources, from historical writing to literature, visual art and popular gimmickry.