The limits of historiography : genre and narrative in ancient historical texts

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The limits of historiography : genre and narrative in ancient historical texts

edited by Christina Shuttleworth Kraus

(Mnemosyne : bibliotheca classica Batava, Supplementum ; 191)

Brill, 1999

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Social pleasures in early Chinese historiography and philosophy / David Schaberg
  • Knowledge and skepticism in ancient Chinese historiography / Wai-Yee Li
  • Local versus general history in Old Hittite historiography / Alexander Uchitel
  • Commemoration, writing, and genre in ancient Mesopotamia / Piotr Michalowski
  • The Persian kings and history / Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg
  • History, historiography, and the use of the past in the Hebrew Bible / Thomas M. Bolin
  • Thucydides' Persian Wars / Tim Rood
  • Guiding metaphor and narrative point of view in Livy's Ab urbe condita / Mary Jaeger
  • Tacitus' Histories and the theory of deliberative oratory / D.S. Levene
  • Jugurthine disorder / Christina S. Kraus
  • Universal perspectives in historiography / Katherine Clarke
  • Genre, convention, and innovation in Greco-Roman historiography / John Marincola
  • Epilogue / Christopher Pelling

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