A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography

This two-volume Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of ancient historiography in the past few decades. Comprises a series of cutting edge articles written by recognised scholars Presents broad, chronological treatments of important issues in the writing of history and antiquity These are complemented by chapters on individual genres and sub-genres from the fifth century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E. Provides a series of interpretative readings on the individual historians Contains essays on the neighbouring genres of tragedy, biography, and epic, among others, and their relationship to history

John Marincola is Professor of Classics at Florida State University. He is the author of Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography (1997), Greek Historians (2001) and, with Michael A. Flower, Herodotus: Histories Book IX (2002). He is currently at work on a book on Hellenistic historiography.

Notes on Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Ancient Authors: Abbreviations
Reference Works: Abbreviations
Introduction
Contexts:
The Place of History in the Ancient World
The Origin of Greek Historiography
History and Historia: Inquiry in the Greek Historians
Documents and the Greek Historian
The Prehistory of Roman Historiography
Myth and History
The Construction of Meaning in the First Three Historians
Characterisation in Ancient Historiography
Speeches in Greek and Roman Historiography
Readers and Reception: A Text Case
Surveys:
The Development of the War Monograph
Continuous Histories (Hellenika)
Universal History from Ephorus to Diodorus
Local History and Atthidography
Western Greek Historiography
The Greek Historians of Persia
The Historians of Alexander
Greek Historians of the Near East: Clio's 'Other Sons'
The Greek Historians of Judaea
The Greek Encounter with Rome
The Early Roman Tradition
Memoirs and Autobiography in Repubican Rome
Roman Historiography in the Late Republic
The Emperor and his Historians
The Epitomising Tradition in Late Antiquity
Readings:
To Each His Own: Herodotus and Simonides on Thermopylae
Rhampsinitos and the Clever Thief (Herodotus 2.121)
The Enigma of Discourse: a View of Thucydides
Contest (Agon) in Thucydides
Narrative Manner and Xenophon's More Routine Hellenica
Fortune (tyche) in Polybius
Polybius and Aetolia: A Historiographical Approach
Diodorus Siculus on the Third Sacred War
Clothing Cincinnatus: Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Caesar's Account of the Battle of Massilia (BC 1.34-2.22): Some Historiographical and Narratological Approaches
The Politics of Sallustian Style
The Translation of Catiline
Claudius Quadrigarius and Livy's Second Pentad
Fog on the Mountain: Philip and Mt. Haemus in Livy, 40.21-22
The Imperial Republic of Velleius Paterculus
Josephus and the Cannibalism of Mary (B.J. 6.199-219)
Quintus Curtius Rufus on the 'Good King': The Dioxippus Episode in Book 9.7.16-26
Tacitus and the Battle of Mons Graupius: An Historiographical Road Map?
Feast Your Eyes on This: Vitellius as a Stock Tyrant (Tac. Hist. 3.36-39)
Arrian, Alexander and the Pursuit of Glory
Towards a Literary Evaluation of Appian's Civil Wars, Book 1
Cassius Dio: A Senator and Historian in the Age of Anxiety
Ammianus' Roman Digressions and the Audience of the Res Gestae
'To Forge their Tongues to Grander Styles: Ammianus' Epilogue
History and Epic at Rome
History and Ethnography
History and Tragedy
History and Biography
Antiquarianism and History
Geography and History
History and Fiction
Transition:
Late Antique Historiography, 250-650 CE
Bibliography
Index Locorum
Index
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