Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography

John Marincola is 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.

• Notes on Contributors xiiPreface xxAcknowledgments xxiiAncient Authors: Abbreviations xxivReference Works: Abbreviations xxxviiIntroduction 1John MarincolaPART I Contexts 111 The Place of History in the Ancient World 13Roberto Nicolai2 The Origin of Greek Historiography 27Catherine Darbo-Peschanski3 History and Historia: Inquiry in the Greek Historians 39Guido Schepens4 Documents and the Greek Historians 56P. J. Rhodes5 The Prehistory of Roman Historiography 67T. P. Wiseman6 Myth and Historiography 76Suzanne Saïd7 The Construction of Meaning in the First Three Historians 89Carolyn Dewald8 Characterization in Ancient Historiography 102L. V. Pitcher9 Speeches in Classical Historiography 118John Marincola10 Readers and Reception: A Text Case 133A. J. WoodmanPART II Surveys 14511 The Development of the War Monograph 147Tim Rood12 Continuous Histories (Hellenica) 159Christopher Tuplin13 Universal History from Ephorus to Diodorus 171John Marincola14 Local History and Atthidography 180Phillip Harding15 Western Greek Historiography 189Riccardo Vattuone16 Greek Historians of Persia 200Dominique Lenfant17 The Historians of Alexander the Great 210Andrea Zambrini18 Greek Historians of the Near East: Clio’s ‘‘Other’’ Sons 221John Dillery19 The Jewish Appropriation of Hellenistic Historiography 231Gregory E. Sterling20 The Greek Historians of Rome 244Christopher Pelling21 The Early Roman Tradition 259Hans Beck22 Memoir and Autobiography in Republican Rome 266Andrew M. Riggsby23 Roman Historiography in the Late Republic 275D. S. Levene24 The Emperor and his Historians 290John Matthews25 The Epitomizing Tradition in Late Antiquity 305Thomas M. BanchichPART III Readings 31326 To Each His Own: Simonides and Herodotus on Thermopylae 315Pietro Vannicelli27 Rhampsinitos and the Clever Thief (Herodotus 2.121) 322Stephanie West28 The Enigma of Discourse: A View of Thucydides 328Leone Porciani29 Contest (Ago ¯n) in Thucydides 336Donald Lateiner30 Narrative Manner and Xenophon’s More Routine Hellenica 342Vivienne Gray31 Fortune (tych¯e) in Polybius 349Frank W. Walbank32 Polybius and Aetolia: A Historiographical Approach 356Craige B. Champion33 Diodorus Siculus on the Third Sacred War 363Peter Green34 Caesar’s Account of the Battle of Massilia (BC 1.34–2.22): Some Historiographical and Narratological Approaches 371Christina Shuttleworth Kraus35 The Politics of Sallustian Style 379Ellen O’Gorman36 The Translation of Catiline 385Andrew Feldherr37 Claudius Quadrigarius and Livy’s Second Pentad 391Gary Forsythe38 Fog on the Mountain: Philip and Mt. Haemus in Livy 40.21–22 397Mary Jaeger39 Clothing Cincinnatus: Dionysius of Halicarnassus 404Clemence Schultze40 The Imperial Republic of Velleius Paterculus 411Alain M. Gowing41 Josephus and the Cannibalism of Mary (BJ 6.199–219) 419Honora Howell Chapman42 Quintus Curtius Rufus on the ‘‘Good King’’: The Dioxippus Episode in Book 9.7.16–26 427E. J. Baynham43 Tacitus and the Battle of Mons Graupius: A Historiographical Route Map? 434Rhiannon Ash44 Feast Your Eyes on This: Vitellius as a Stock Tyrant (Tac. Hist. 3.36–39) 441Elizabeth Keitel45 Arrian, Alexander, and the Pursuit of Glory 447A. B. Bosworth46 Toward a Literary Evaluation of Appian’s Civil Wars, Book 1 454Gregory S. Bucher47 Cassius Dio: A Senator and Historian in the Age of Anxiety 461Martin Hose48 Ammianus’ Roman Digressions and the Audience of the Res Gestae 468David Rohrbacher49 ‘‘To Forge Their Tongues to Grander Styles’’: Ammianus’ Epilogue 474Gavin KellyPART IV Neighbors 48150 Epic and Historiography at Rome 483Matthew Leigh51 Ethnography and History 493Emma Dench52 Tragedy and History 504Richard Rutherford53 Antiquarianism and History 515Benedetto Bravo54 Biography and History 528Philip Stadter55 Geography and History 541Johannes Engels56 Fiction and History: Historiography and the Novel 553J. R. MorganPART V Transition 56557 Late Antique Historiography, 250–650 CE 567Brian CrokeBibliography 582Index Locorum 642General Index 677