Greek HistoriansThis survey of recent work on Herodotus, Thucydides, and Polybius focuses on new developments in the study of Greek historiography and synthesises some of the most important research from the last thirty years. There is a detailed treatment of each writer, with an emphasis on analysis of the historians' sources, their narrative methods, and their use of speeches. Also examined are the structure and themes of each man's work, together with consideration of the way each historian employs characterisation. The book provides a full bibliography of recent work done mainly (but not exclusively) in English, and suggests future directions that the study of these historians may take. It will be of interest to upper-level students and scholars who would like an overview of recent trends in the study both of the historians themselves and of ancient Greek historiography in general. |
Contents
The Greeks and their Past | 9 |
Herodotus | 17 |
Thucydides | 61 |
Hellenistic Historians | 105 |
Polybius | 113 |
Bibliographical Note | 150 |
Common terms and phrases
Achaean actions Alcibiades ancient historians ancient historiography Archidamus argues arguments Athenians Athens battle bibliography Book Brasidas Cambridge Cambyses character Connor contemporary criticism Croesus Cyrus deeds digressions Dionysius Dionysius of Halicarnassus earlier Ephorus epic especially evaluation example F. W. Walbank FGrHist Fornara fortune fragments genre Greece Greek Greek historiography Hecataeus Hellenica Hellenistic Herodotean Herodotus heroes historiography Homer Hornblower human Immerwahr 1966 important individual influence interpretation Jacoby judgement Lateiner later logoi London Marincola 1997 marvels Momigliano narrative narrator Nicias notes oral orig Oxford passages passim Pausanias Pédech Peloponnesian Peloponnesian War Pericles Persian Persian Wars Philopoemen Plataea poetry political Polybius portrait praise Purposes of History Pylos reader remarks rhetorical role Roman Rome Rood scholars Scipio seems Sicilian expedition Sicily sources Spartans speeches story suggests Syracuse themes Themistocles Theopompus Thuc Thucydides Timaeus tradition Westlake Woodman writing Xerxes καὶ τῶν