The
limits of historiography
genre and narrative in ancient historical texts
Kraus, Christina Shuttleworth.
text
bibliography
ne
Leiden
Boston
Brill
1999
monographic
eng
ix, 363 p. ; 25 cm.
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 / Timothy Rood -- Guiding metaphor and narrative point of view in Livy's Ab urbe condita / Mary Jaeger -- Tacitus' Histories and the theory of deliberative oratory / David 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.
edited by Christina Shuttleworth Kraus.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
History, Ancient
Historiography
Narration (Rhetoric)
History
To 1500
Literary form
History
To 1500
D56 .L56 1999
930/.07/2
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. 191
Supplementum
9004106707 (alk. paper)
99031269
DLC
990429
20110217164028.0
2158029