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A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography
"This is a major work … that any library serving scholars in or relating to this field—and there will be many and widely distributed among disciplines—will need to purchase … .It is logically planned and constructed." (Reference Reviews, Issue 5 2008) "Marincola personally speaks with authority on the entire tradition of ancient historiography, both Greek and Roman … and has collected a fine supporting cast of no fewer than 56 scholars." (The Anglo-Hellenic Review, Autumn 2008) “This new Companion gives a hearty boost to the ‘We are winning!’ camp, in its sustained engagement with this important issue … and also in its sheer energy and vivacity. One finds oneself with a veritable host of companions at one's elbow, each with a distinctive style and personality, and the product of various nationalities and scholarly traditions. The juxtaposition captures vividly the flavor of current scholarly debate, particularly since the majority of contributors are central figures in their area of scholarship. The volume represents an exhilarating compendium of cutting-edge perspectives on a range of themes. This tremendously valuable two-tome assembly of a stellar array of scholars and scholarship-its whole indeed greater than the sum of its parts-is a credit to its editor and publisher, displays the vibrancy of the field, and will well serve scholars and students in years to come.” (New England Classical Journal, November 2008) "All that you ever needed to know about Greek and Roman historians and current academic study thereon." (Journal of Classics Teaching) “Major work on a major genre … with no rival in English (or any other language) … .An indispensable guide to the subject. Essential.” (Choice) “Thorough, vigorous and up-to-date treatment of the subject, it should find a place on the shelves of scholars and students of antiquity alike.” (Bryn Mawr Classical Review)
John Marincola (Edited by)
9781444339239, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 26 November 2010
752 pages
24.7 x 17.3 x 4.1 cm, 1.297 kg
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.
Notes on Contributors xii Preface xx Acknowledgments xxii Ancient Authors: Abbreviations xxiv Reference Works: Abbreviations xxxvii Introduction 1 PART I Contexts 11 1 The Place of History in the Ancient World 13 2 The Origin of Greek Historiography 27 3 History and Historia: Inquiry in the Greek Historians 39 4 Documents and the Greek Historians 56 5 The Prehistory of Roman Historiography 67 6 Myth and Historiography 76 7 The Construction of Meaning in the First Three Historians 89 8 Characterization in Ancient Historiography 102 9 Speeches in Classical Historiography 118 10 Readers and Reception: A Text Case 133 PART II Surveys 145 11 The Development of the War Monograph 147 12 Continuous Histories (Hellenica) 159 13 Universal History from Ephorus to Diodorus 171 14 Local History and Atthidography 180 15 Western Greek Historiography 189 16 Greek Historians of Persia 200 17 The Historians of Alexander the Great 210 18 Greek Historians of the Near East: Clio’s ‘‘Other’’ Sons 221 19 The Jewish Appropriation of Hellenistic Historiography 231 20 The Greek Historians of Rome 244 21 The Early Roman Tradition 259 22 Memoir and Autobiography in Republican Rome 266 23 Roman Historiography in the Late Republic 275 24 The Emperor and his Historians 290 25 The Epitomizing Tradition in Late Antiquity 305 PART III Readings 313 26 To Each His Own: Simonides and Herodotus on Thermopylae 315 27 Rhampsinitos and the Clever Thief (Herodotus 2.121) 322 28 The Enigma of Discourse: A View of Thucydides 328 29 Contest (Ago ¯n) in Thucydides 336 30 Narrative Manner and Xenophon’s More Routine Hellenica 342 31 Fortune (tych¯e) in Polybius 349 32 Polybius and Aetolia: A Historiographical Approach 356 33 Diodorus Siculus on the Third Sacred War 363 34 Caesar’s Account of the Battle of Massilia (BC 1.34–2.22): Some Historiographical and Narratological Approaches 371 35 The Politics of Sallustian Style 379 36 The Translation of Catiline 385 37 Claudius Quadrigarius and Livy’s Second Pentad 391 38 Fog on the Mountain: Philip and Mt. Haemus in Livy 40.21–22 397 39 Clothing Cincinnatus: Dionysius of Halicarnassus 404 40 The Imperial Republic of Velleius Paterculus 411 41 Josephus and the Cannibalism of Mary (BJ 6.199–219) 419 42 Quintus Curtius Rufus on the ‘‘Good King’’: The Dioxippus Episode in Book 9.7.16–26 427 43 Tacitus and the Battle of Mons Graupius: A Historiographical Route Map? 434 44 Feast Your Eyes on This: Vitellius as a Stock Tyrant (Tac. Hist. 3.36–39) 441 45 Arrian, Alexander, and the Pursuit of Glory 447 46 Toward a Literary Evaluation of Appian’s Civil Wars, Book 1 454 47 Cassius Dio: A Senator and Historian in the Age of Anxiety 461 48 Ammianus’ Roman Digressions and the Audience of the Res Gestae 468 49 ‘‘To Forge Their Tongues to Grander Styles’’: Ammianus’ Epilogue 474 PART IV Neighbors 481 50 Epic and Historiography at Rome 483 51 Ethnography and History 493 52 Tragedy and History 504 53 Antiquarianism and History 515 54 Biography and History 528 55 Geography and History 541 56 Fiction and History: Historiography and the Novel 553 PART V Transition 565 57 Late Antique Historiography, 250–650 CE 567 Bibliography 582 Index Locorum 642 General Index 677
John Marincola
Roberto Nicolai
Catherine Darbo-Peschanski
Guido Schepens
P. J. Rhodes
T. P. Wiseman
Suzanne Saïd
Carolyn Dewald
L. V. Pitcher
John Marincola
A. J. Woodman
Tim Rood
Christopher Tuplin
John Marincola
Phillip Harding
Riccardo Vattuone
Dominique Lenfant
Andrea Zambrini
John Dillery
Gregory E. Sterling
Christopher Pelling
Hans Beck
Andrew M. Riggsby
D. S. Levene
John Matthews
Thomas M. Banchich
Pietro Vannicelli
Stephanie West
Leone Porciani
Donald Lateiner
Vivienne Gray
Frank W. Walbank
Craige B. Champion
Peter Green
Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
Ellen O’Gorman
Andrew Feldherr
Gary Forsythe
Mary Jaeger
Clemence Schultze
Alain M. Gowing
Honora Howell Chapman
E. J. Baynham
Rhiannon Ash
Elizabeth Keitel
A. B. Bosworth
Gregory S. Bucher
Martin Hose
David Rohrbacher
Gavin Kelly
Matthew Leigh
Emma Dench
Richard Rutherford
Benedetto Bravo
Philip Stadter
Johannes Engels
J. R. Morgan
Brian Croke
Subject Areas: History [HB]
