The limits of historiography : genre and narrative in ancient historical texts / edited by Christina Shuttleworth Kraus.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, ; 191Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1999.Description: ix, 363 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9004106707 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 930/.07/2 21
LOC classification:
  • D56 .L56 1999
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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