A collection of important recent articles discussing the ways in which the ancient Greeks and Romans thought about and wrote their histories. Six articles are newly translated into English, while a specially written introduction places the essays in the larger context of earlier and more recent trends in the study of classical historiography.
A collection of important recent articles discussing the ways in which the ancient Greeks and Romans thought about and wrote their histories. Six articles are newly translated into English, while a specially written introduction places the essays in the larger context of earlier and more recent trends in the study of classical historiography.
* Introduction * I. Constructing the Past: Myth, Memory and History * 1: Nicole Loraux: Thucydides is Not a Colleague * 2: Hans-Joachim Gehrke: Myth, History, Politics - Ancient and Modern * 3: Rosalind Thomas: Genealogy and the Genealogists * 4: Guido Schepens: Some Aspects of Source Theory in Greek Historiography * 5: Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg: The Tradition about Early Rome and Oral History * 6: Dieter Timpe: Memoria and Historiography at Rome * 7: T. J. Cornell: Etruscan Historiography * II. Rhetoric, Truth, and Falsehood * 8: P. A. Brunt: Cicero and Historiography * 9: A. J. Woodman: Cicero and the Writing of History * 10: T. J. Luce: Ancient Views on the Causes of Bias in Historical Writing * 11: T. P. Wiseman: Lying Historians: Seven Types of Mendacity * 12: Emilio Gabba: True History and False History in Classical Antiquity * III. History and Poetry * 13: Luciano Canfora: The Historical 'Cycle' * 14: F. W. Walbank: History and Tragedy * 15: Hermann Funke: Poetry and Historiography
* Introduction * I. Constructing the Past: Myth, Memory and History * 1: Nicole Loraux: Thucydides is Not a Colleague * 2: Hans-Joachim Gehrke: Myth, History, Politics - Ancient and Modern * 3: Rosalind Thomas: Genealogy and the Genealogists * 4: Guido Schepens: Some Aspects of Source Theory in Greek Historiography * 5: Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg: The Tradition about Early Rome and Oral History * 6: Dieter Timpe: Memoria and Historiography at Rome * 7: T. J. Cornell: Etruscan Historiography * II. Rhetoric, Truth, and Falsehood * 8: P. A. Brunt: Cicero and Historiography * 9: A. J. Woodman: Cicero and the Writing of History * 10: T. J. Luce: Ancient Views on the Causes of Bias in Historical Writing * 11: T. P. Wiseman: Lying Historians: Seven Types of Mendacity * 12: Emilio Gabba: True History and False History in Classical Antiquity * III. History and Poetry * 13: Luciano Canfora: The Historical 'Cycle' * 14: F. W. Walbank: History and Tragedy * 15: Hermann Funke: Poetry and Historiography
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