A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography, 2 Volume Set

by Marincola, John

• ISBN13: 9781405102162
• ISBN10: 1405102160
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-29
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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

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 (Ag??n) in Thucydides

Narrative Manner and Xenophon's More Routine Hellenica

Fortune (tychA?) 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

The Imperial Republic of Velleius Paterculus

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