Table of Contents

1: Piotr Michalowski: Early Mesopotamia
2: Mario Liverani: Later Mesopotamia
3: John Baines: Ancient Egypt
4: John Van Seters: Historiography in Ancient Israel
5: Robin Osborne: Greek Inscriptions as Historical Writing
6: Deborah Boedeker: Early Greek Poetry as/and History
7: Jonas Grethlein: The Rise of Greek Historiography and the Invention of Prose
8: John Dillery: Hellenistic Historiography
9: Jonathan J. Price: Josephus
10: Alison E. Cooley: History and Inscriptions, Rome
11: Uwe Walter: Annales and Analysis
12: Ellen O'Gorman: Imperial History and Biography at Rome
13: David S. Potter: The Greek Historians of Imperial Rome
14: Michael Whitby: Imperial Christian Historiography
15: Edward L. Shaughnessy: History and Inscriptions (China)
16: David Schaberg: Chinese History and Philosophy
17: Wai-yee Li: Pre-Qin Annals
18: Mark Edward Lewis: Historiography and Empire
19: William H. Nienhauser, Jr.: Sima Qian and the Shiji
20: Steven W. Durrant: The Han Histories
21: Albert E. Dien: Historiography of the Six Dynasties Period (220-581)
22: John Kieschnick: Buddhism: Biographies of Buddhist Monks
23: Romila Thapar: Historical Traditions in Early India: c.1000 BC to c. AD 600
24: Romila Thapar: Inscriptions as Historical Writing in Early India: Third Century BC to Sixth Century AD
25: G. E. R. Lloyd: Epilogue

About the Author

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.

Reviews

The Oxford History of History Writing is a fundamental publication on international historiography traditions, its problems, and key actors.
*Zaur Gasimov, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas*