J. Marincola (ed.), A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography

John Marincola (ed.), A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography

2 volumes.

Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, coll. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World", 2007. 656p,

Isbn (ean13): 978-1-4051-0216-2

Compte rendu de cet ouvrage par John Bauschatz dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2008.07.45

Présentation de l'éditeur:

A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of classical historiography in the past few decades. In a series of cutting-edge articles by authoritative scholars, this resource communicates the results of recent research, and demonstrate the diversity of approaches towards the past in studies of the ancient world.

The Companion includes five sections. The first presents broad, diachronic treatments of important issues in the writing of history in antiquity. In the second section, the major genres and sub-genres of classical historiography are covered in individual articles. The third section presents readings of individual historians and works, while the fourth section looks at those genres – biography, epic and fiction - on the borders of historiography. The final part explores the transition into late Antiquity.

Sommaire:

Notes on Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Ancient Authors: Abbreviations
Reference Works: Abbreviations
Introduction
John Marincola
PART I. CONTEXTS
1 The Place of History in the Ancient World
Roberto Nicolai
2 The Origin of Greek Historiography
Catherine Darbo-Peschanski
3 History and Historia: Inquiry in the Greek Historians
Guido Schepens
4 Documents and the Greek Historian
P. J. Rhodes
5 The Prehistory of Roman Historiography
T. P. Wiseman
6 Myth and History
Suzanne Saïd
7 The Construction of Meaning in the First Three Historians
Carolyn Dewald
8 Characterisation in Ancient Historiography
L. V. Pitcher
9 Speeches in Greek and Roman Historiography
John Marincola
10 Readers and Reception: A Text Case
A. J. Woodman
PART II. SURVEYS
11 The Development of the War Monograph
Tim Rood
12 Continuous Histories (Hellenika)
Christopher Tuplin
13 Universal History from Ephorus to Diodorus
John Marincola
14 Local History and Atthidography
Philip Harding
15 Western Greek Historiography
Riccardo Vattuone
16 The Greek Historians of Persia
Dominique Lenfant
17 The Historians of Alexander
Andrea Zambrini
18 Greek Historians of the Near East: Clio¿s ¿Other Sons¿
John Dillery
19 The Jewish Appropriation of Hellenistic Historiography
Gregory Sterling
20 The Greek Encounter with Rome
Christopher Pelling
21 The Early Roman Tradition
Hans Beck
22 Memoirs and Autobiography in Repubican Rome
Andrew Riggsby
23 Roman Historiography in the Late Republic
David Levene
24 The Emperor and his Historians
John Matthews
25 The Epitomising Tradition in Late Antiquity
Thomas Banchich
PART III. READINGS
26 To Each His Own: Herodotus and Simonides on Thermopylae
Pietro Vannicelli
27 Rhampsinitos and the Clever Thief (Herodotus 2.121)
Stephanie West
28 The Enigma of Discourse: a View of Thucydides
Leone Porciani
29 Contest (Ag?n) in Thucydides
Donald Lateiner
30 Narrative Manner and Xenophon¿s More Routine Hellenica
Vivienne Gray
31 Fortune (tych?) in Polybius
Frank Walbank
32 Polybius and Aetolia: A Historiographical Approach
Craige Champion
33 Diodorus Siculus on the Third Sacred War
Peter Green
34 Clothing Cincinnatus: Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Clemence Schultze
35 Caesar¿s Account of the Battle of Massilia (BC 1.34-2.22): Some Historiographical and
Narratological Approaches
Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
36 The Politics of Sallustian Style
Ellen O¿Gorman
37 The Translation of Catiline
Andrew Feldherr
38 Claudius Quadrigarius and Livy¿s Second Pentad
Gary Forsythe
39 Fog on the Mountain: Philip and Mt. Haemus in Livy, 40.21-22
Mary Jaeger
40 The Imperial Republic of Velleius Paterculus
Alain Gowing
41 Josephus and the Cannibalism of Mary (B.J. 6.199-219)
Honora Howell Chapman
42 Quintus Curtius Rufus on the ¿Good King¿: The Dioxippus Episode
in Book 9.7.16-26
Elizabeth Baynham
43 Tacitus and the Battle of Mons Graupius: An Historiographical Road Map?
Rhiannon Ash
44 Feast Your Eyes on This: Vitellius as a Stock Tyrant (Tac. Hist. 3.36-39)
Elizabeth Keitel
45 Arrian, Alexander and the Pursuit of Glory
A. B. Bosworth
46 Towards a Literary Evaluation of Appian¿s Civil Wars, Book 1
Gregory Bucher
47 Cassius Dio: A Senator and Historian in the Age of Anxiety
Martin Hose
48 Ammianus¿ Roman Digressions and the Audience of the Res Gestae
David Rohrbacher
49 ¿To Forge their Tongues to Grander Styles: Ammianus¿ Epilogue
Gavin Kelly
PART IV. NEIGHBOURS
50 History and Epic at Rome
Matthew Leigh
51 History and Ethnography
Emma Dench
52 History and Tragedy
Richard Rutherford
53 History and Biography
Philip Stadter
54 Antiquarianism and History
Benedetto Bravo
55 Geography and History
Johannes Engles
56 History and Fiction
John Morgan
PART V. TRANSITION
57 Late Antique Historiography, 250-650 CE
Brian Croke
Bibliography
Index Locorum
Inde