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Contents Notes on Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Ancient Authors: Abbreviations Reference Works: Abbreviations Introduction John Marincola PART I. CONTEXTS 1 The Place of History in the Ancient World Roberto Nicolai 2 The Origin of Greek Historiography Catherine Darbo-Peschanski 3 History and Historia: Inquiry in the Greek Historians Guido Schepens 4 Documents and the Greek Historian P. J. Rhodes 5 The Prehistory of Roman Historiography T. P. Wiseman 6 Myth and History Suzanne Saïd 7 The Construction of Meaning in the First Three Historians Carolyn Dewald 8 Characterisation in Ancient Historiography L. V. Pitcher 9 Speeches in Greek and Roman Historiography John Marincola 10 Readers and Reception: A Text Case A. J. Woodman PART II. SURVEYS 11 The Development of the War Monograph Tim Rood 12 Continuous Histories (Hellenika) Christopher Tuplin 13 Universal History from Ephorus to Diodorus John Marincola 14 Local History and Atthidography Philip Harding 15 Western Greek Historiography Riccardo Vattuone 16 The Greek Historians of Persia Dominique Lenfant 17 The Historians of Alexander Andrea Zambrini 18 Greek Historians of the Near East: Clio¿s ¿Other Sons¿ John Dillery 19 The Jewish Appropriation of Hellenistic Historiography Gregory Sterling 20 The Greek Encounter with Rome Christopher Pelling 21 The Early Roman Tradition Hans Beck 22 Memoirs and Autobiography in Repubican Rome Andrew Riggsby 23 Roman Historiography in the Late Republic David Levene 24 The Emperor and his Historians John Matthews 25 The Epitomising Tradition in Late Antiquity Thomas Banchich PART III. READINGS 26 To Each His Own: Herodotus and Simonides on Thermopylae Pietro Vannicelli 27 Rhampsinitos and the Clever Thief (Herodotus 2.121) Stephanie West 28 The Enigma of Discourse: a View of Thucydides Leone Porciani 29 Contest (Ag?n) in Thucydides Donald Lateiner 30 Narrative Manner and Xenophon¿s More Routine Hellenica Vivienne Gray 31 Fortune (tych?) in Polybius Frank Walbank 32 Polybius and Aetolia: A Historiographical Approach Craige Champion 33 Diodorus Siculus on the Third Sacred War Peter Green 34 Clothing Cincinnatus: Dionysius of Halicarnassus Clemence Schultze 35 Caesar¿s Account of the Battle of Massilia (BC 1.34-2.22): Some Historiographical and Narratological Approaches Christina Shuttleworth Kraus 36 The Politics of Sallustian Style Ellen O¿Gorman 37 The Translation of Catiline Andrew Feldherr 38 Claudius Quadrigarius and Livy¿s Second Pentad Gary Forsythe 39 Fog on the Mountain: Philip and Mt. Haemus in Livy, 40.21-22 Mary Jaeger 40 The Imperial Republic of Velleius Paterculus Alain Gowing 41 Josephus and the Cannibalism of Mary (B.J. 6.199-219) Honora Howell Chapman 42 Quintus Curtius Rufus on the ¿Good King¿: The Dioxippus Episode in Book 9.7.16-26 Elizabeth Baynham 43 Tacitus and the Battle of Mons Graupius: An Historiographical Road Map? Rhiannon Ash 44 Feast Your Eyes on This: Vitellius as a Stock Tyrant (Tac. Hist. 3.36-39) Elizabeth Keitel 45 Arrian, Alexander and the Pursuit of Glory A. B. Bosworth 46 Towards a Literary Evaluation of Appian¿s Civil Wars, Book 1 Gregory Bucher 47 Cassius Dio: A Senator and Historian in the Age of Anxiety Martin Hose 48 Ammianus¿ Roman Digressions and the Audience of the Res Gestae David Rohrbacher 49 ¿To Forge their Tongues to Grander Styles: Ammianus¿ Epilogue Gavin Kelly PART IV. NEIGHBOURS 50 History and Epic at Rome Matthew Leigh 51 History and Ethnography Emma Dench 52 History and Tragedy Richard Rutherford 53 History and Biography Philip Stadter 54 Antiquarianism and History Benedetto Bravo 55 Geography and History Johannes Engles 56 History and Fiction John Morgan PART V. TRANSITION 57 Late Antique Historiography, 250-650 CE Brian Croke Bibliography Index Locorum Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Greece -- Historiography.
Rome -- Historiography.