The Oxford History of Historical Writing Volume 1: Beginnings to AD 600

by Feldherr, Andrew; Hardy, Grant

• ISBN13: 9780199218158
• ISBN10: 0199218153
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Volume I ofThe Oxford History of Historical Writingoffers essays by leading scholars on the development and history of the major traditions of historical writing, including the ancient Near East, Classical Greece and Rome, and East and South Asia from their origins until ca. AD 600. It aims at once to provide an authoritative survey of the field and to provoke cross-cultural comparisons. This is the first of five volumes in a series that will explore representations of the past from the beginning of writing to the present day, and from all over the world.

Author Biography

Andrew Feldherr received his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1991 and is currently Professor of Classics at Princeton University. His research focuses on Latin literature, primarily historiography and the poetry of the late republic and early empire.

Grant Hardy is Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He has a B.A. in Ancient Greek from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D in Chinese Language and Literature from Yale.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. xv
Notes on the Contributors	p. xvi
Advisory Board	p. xix
Editors' Introduction	p. 1
Early Mesopotamia	p. 5
Later Mesopotamia	p. 29
Ancient Egypt	p. 53
Historiography in Ancient Israel	p. 76
Greek Inscriptions as Historical Writing	p. 97
Early Greek Poetry as/and History	p. 122
The Rise of Greek Historiography and the Invention of Prose	p. 148
Hellenistic Historiography	p. 171
Josephus	p. 219
History and Inscriptions, Rome	p. 244
Annales and Analysis	p. 265
Imperial History and Biography at Rome	p. 291
The Greek Historians of Imperial Rome	p. 316
Imperial Christian Historiography	p. 346
History and Inscriptions, China	p. 371
Chinese History and Philosophy	p. 394
Pre-Qin Annals	p. 415
Historiography and Empire	p. 440
Sima Qian and the Shiji	p. 463
The Han Histories	p. 485
Historiography of the Six Dynasties Period (220-581)	p. 509
Buddhism: Biographies of Buddhist Monks	p. 535
Historical Traditions in Early India: c. 1000 BC to c. AD 600	p. 553
Inscriptions as Historical Writing in Early India: Third Century BC to Sixth Century AD	p. 577
Epilogue	p. 601
Index	p. 621
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