Table of Contents

Notes 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

About the Author

ABOUT THE EDITOR
John Marincola is Leon Golden 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.

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