The Art of History [online] : Literary perspectives on greek and roman historiography / Vasileios Liotsakis, Scott Farrington

Frontmatter Foreword Table of contents Introduction

I. Fifth-Century Greek Historiography Herodotus and Greek Lyric Poetry Cambyses and the Sacred Bull (Hdt. 3.27– 29 and 3.64): History and Legend Narrative Defects in Thucydides and the Development of Ancient Greek Historiography Thucydides and Poetry. Ancient Remarks on the Vocabulary and Structure of Thucydides’ History Thucydides’ Methodenkapitel in the Light of the Ancient Evidence Alcibiades, the Ancestors, Liturgies, and the Etiquette of Addressing the Athenian Assembly

II. Greek narrators of the past under Rome The Tragic Phylarchus “No One Can Look at Them Without Feeling Pity”: συμπάθεια and the Reader in Diodorus’ Bibliotheke Dream Narratives in Plutarch’s Lives: The Place of Fiction in Biography

III. Roman Historiography Encouraging Troops, Persuading Narratees: Pre-Battle Exhortations in Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum as a Narrative Device Carthago Deleta: Alternate Realities and Meta-History in Appian’s Libyca Histories Repeated? The Mutinies in Annals 1 and Tacitean Self-Allusion Suetonius’ Construction of His Historiographical auctoritas Contributors Index nominum et rerum Index locorum

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