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Cover Page; Contents Page; Endorsements Page; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contributors Page; Preface; Acknowledgments; Ancient Authors: Abbreviations; Reference Works: Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Approaching Classical Historiography; 2 Evolving Approaches; 3 Developmental Models; Part I: Contexts; Chapter 1: The Place of History in the Ancient World; 1 Preliminary Considerations; 2 The Place of History and the Place of Historiography; 3 Historiography as a Literary Genre rather than a Science
4 The Study of the Past: Historiography in the Ancient School-System5 Historiography's Audience; Chapter 2: The Origin of Greek Historiography; 1 Terms of the Problem; 2 Historiographos, Historia; 3 "Historical" Understanding; 4 The Thucydidean Rupture; Chapter 3: History and Historia: Inquiry in the Greek Historians; 1 Introduction: The Long-Lasting "Greek" Tradition of Historical Research; 2 Herodotus and Thucydides: Contending Founders of the Tradition of Inquiry in Greek Historiography; 3 Continuity and Discontinuity; 4 Final Thoughts; Chapter 4: Documents and the Greek Historians
Chapter 5: The Prehistory of Roman Historiography1; 2; 3; 4; Chapter 6: Myth and Historiography; 1 Introduction; 2 "Myth" and Muthos; 3 Spatium Mythicum?; 4 Myths and Historical Sub-Genres; 5 Approaches to Myths; 6 Conclusion; Chapter 7: The Construction of Meaning in the First Three Historians; 1 Introduction; 2 Rescuing the Remarkable from Oblivion; 3 Recording Judgment; 4 Deploying the Authorial Narrator's Voice; 5 Recounting Narrative: "One Damn Thing after Another"; 6 Conclusion; Chapter 8: Characterization in Ancient Historiography; 1 Introduction; 2 Consistency in Characterization
3 The Expression of Personality4 Indirect Characterization; 5 Characterization by Word and Deed; 6 Structural Characterization; 7 Character Change and Development; Character and Behavior; 8 Conclusion; Chapter 9: Speeches in Classical Historiography; 1 Introduction; 2 Writing Speeches: Truth vs. Probability?; 3 Conventions; 4 Past and Present; Chapter 10: Readers and Reception: A Text Case; Part II: Surveys; Chapter 11: The Development of the War Monograph; 1 Introduction; 2 Polybius, Monographs, and Universal History; 3 War, Homer, and the Historians; 4 Conclusion
Chapter 12: Continuous Histories (Hellenica)1 Introduction; 2 Definition; Chapter 13: Universal History from Ephorus to Diodorus; 1 Writing "Universally"; 2 Ephorus; 3 Theopompus; 4 Diodorus of Sicily; 5 Conclusion; Chapter 14: Local History and Atthidography; 1 Introduction; 2 Form and Style; 3 Content and Sources; 4 Origins; 5 Conclusion; Chapter 15: Western Greek Historiography; 1 Introduction; 2 Hippys of Rhegium; 3 Antiochus of Syracuse; 4 Philistus of Syracuse; 5 Timaeus of Tauromenium; Chapter 16: Greek Historians of Persia; 1 Introduction; 2 Fifth-Century Authors of Persica; 3 Ctesias
4 Ctesias' Successors
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