Greek and Roman Historiography

• Assembly of important articles under one cover enables understanding of the current debates concerning ancient historiography
• Includes six key contributions which have been translated into English for the first time
• Contextualizing introduction lets readers see where current scholarship has come from and how it relates to earlier work

Readership: Scholars and students of classics, especially of ancient historiography.

Edited by John Marincola, Leon Golden Professor of Classics, Florida State University

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