A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography [Paperback]

• 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

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