Description
Book SynopsisThis 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
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors xii
Preface xx
Acknowledgments xxii
Ancient Authors: Abbreviations xxiv
Reference Works: Abbreviations xxxvii
Introduction 1
John Marincola
PART I Contexts 11
1 The Place of History in the Ancient World 13
Roberto Nicolai
2 The Origin of Greek Historiography 27
Catherine Darbo-Peschanski
3 History and Historia: Inquiry in the Greek Historians 39
Guido Schepens
4 Documents and the Greek Historians 56
P. J. Rhodes
5 The Prehistory of Roman Historiography 67
T. P. Wiseman
6 Myth and Historiography 76
Suzanne Saïd
7 The Construction of Meaning in the First Three Historians 89
Carolyn Dewald
8 Characterization in Ancient Historiography 102
L. V. Pitcher
9 Speeches in Classical Historiography 118
John Marincola
10 Readers and Reception: A Text Case 133
A. J. Woodman
PART II Surveys 145
11 The Development of the War Monograph 147
Tim Rood
12 Continuous Histories (Hellenica) 159
Christopher Tuplin
13 Universal History from Ephorus to Diodorus 171
John Marincola
14 Local History and Atthidography 180
Phillip Harding
15 Western Greek Historiography 189
Riccardo Vattuone
16 Greek Historians of Persia 200
Dominique Lenfant
17 The Historians of Alexander the Great 210
Andrea Zambrini
18 Greek Historians of the Near East: Clio’s ‘‘Other’’ Sons 221
John Dillery
19 The Jewish Appropriation of Hellenistic Historiography 231
Gregory E. Sterling
20 The Greek Historians of Rome 244
Christopher Pelling
21 The Early Roman Tradition 259
Hans Beck
22 Memoir and Autobiography in Republican Rome 266
Andrew M. Riggsby
23 Roman Historiography in the Late Republic 275
D. S. Levene
24 The Emperor and his Historians 290
John Matthews
25 The Epitomizing Tradition in Late Antiquity 305
Thomas M. Banchich
PART III Readings 313
26 To Each His Own: Simonides and Herodotus on Thermopylae 315
Pietro Vannicelli
27 Rhampsinitos and the Clever Thief (Herodotus 2.121) 322
Stephanie West
28 The Enigma of Discourse: A View of Thucydides 328
Leone Porciani
29 Contest (Ago ¯n) in Thucydides 336
Donald Lateiner
30 Narrative Manner and Xenophon’s More Routine Hellenica 342
Vivienne Gray
31 Fortune (tych¯e) in Polybius 349
Frank W. Walbank
32 Polybius and Aetolia: A Historiographical Approach 356
Craige B. Champion
33 Diodorus Siculus on the Third Sacred War 363
Peter Green
34 Caesar’s Account of the Battle of Massilia (BC 1.34–2.22): Some Historiographical and Narratological Approaches 371
Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
35 The Politics of Sallustian Style 379
Ellen O’Gorman
36 The Translation of Catiline 385
Andrew Feldherr
37 Claudius Quadrigarius and Livy’s Second Pentad 391
Gary Forsythe
38 Fog on the Mountain: Philip and Mt. Haemus in Livy 40.21–22 397
Mary Jaeger
39 Clothing Cincinnatus: Dionysius of Halicarnassus 404
Clemence Schultze
40 The Imperial Republic of Velleius Paterculus 411
Alain M. Gowing
41 Josephus and the Cannibalism of Mary (BJ 6.199–219) 419
Honora Howell Chapman
42 Quintus Curtius Rufus on the ‘‘Good King’’: The Dioxippus Episode in Book 9.7.16–26 427
E. J. Baynham
43 Tacitus and the Battle of Mons Graupius: A Historiographical Route Map? 434
Rhiannon Ash
44 Feast Your Eyes on This: Vitellius as a Stock Tyrant (Tac. Hist. 3.36–39) 441
Elizabeth Keitel
45 Arrian, Alexander, and the Pursuit of Glory 447
A. B. Bosworth
46 Toward a Literary Evaluation of Appian’s Civil Wars, Book 1 454
Gregory S. Bucher
47 Cassius Dio: A Senator and Historian in the Age of Anxiety 461
Martin Hose
48 Ammianus’ Roman Digressions and the Audience of the Res Gestae 468
David Rohrbacher
49 ‘‘To Forge Their Tongues to Grander Styles’’: Ammianus’ Epilogue 474
Gavin Kelly
PART IV Neighbors 481
50 Epic and Historiography at Rome 483
Matthew Leigh
51 Ethnography and History 493
Emma Dench
52 Tragedy and History 504
Richard Rutherford
53 Antiquarianism and History 515
Benedetto Bravo
54 Biography and History 528
Philip Stadter
55 Geography and History 541
Johannes Engels
56 Fiction and History: Historiography and the Novel 553
J. R. Morgan
PART V Transition 565
57 Late Antique Historiography, 250–650 CE 567
Brian Croke
Bibliography 582
Index Locorum 642
General Index 677
