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Between Thucydides and Polybius, the golden age of Greek historiography, edited by Giovanni Parmeggiani

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Between Thucydides and Polybius

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edited by Giovanni Parmeggiani

Hellenic studies, 64

the golden age of Greek historiography

Historians like Ephorus, Theopompus, or Aristotle's great-nephew Callisthenes, to say nothing of Xenophon, counted among the most acclaimed in antiquity. But with the exception of Xenophon, their complete works have not survived, and thus they are accessible to the modern reader only in the form of fragments, usually quoted by later authors. The present collection of essays by an international team of scholars focuses on the contribution of these and other fourth-century authors to the development of Greek historiography in terms of form, scope, and methods. Between Thucydides and Polybius sheds light on the interface between historiography and rhetoric, while undermining the claim that historians after Thucydides allowed rhetoric to prevail over research in their reconstructions of the past. Topics discussed in the essays include the use of documents and inscriptions by fourth-century historians, the emergence of the individual as a subject of history, ethnography, and the role of the Persian Empire in the cultural world of the fourth century BCE. Overall, the book offers a reassessment of a crucial phase in Greek historiography that has long lain in the shadow of Thucydides and Polybius.--, Provided by Publisher

1. Introduction [Giovanni Parmeggiani] 2. Looking for the Invisible [Riccardo Vattuone] 3. Rethinking Isocrates and Historiography [John Marincola] 4. At the Boundary of Historiography [Roberto Nicolai] 5. The Use of Documents in Xenophon's Hellenica [Cinzia Bearzot] 6. The Causes of the Peloponnesian War [Giovanni Parmeggiani] 7. Ephorus in Context [Nino Luraghi] 8. Ephorus, Polybius, and α ¿ [John Tully] 9. Greek Monographs on the Persian World [Dominique Lenfant] 10. The Sick Man of Asia? [Christopher Tuplin] 11. Local History, Polis History, and the Politics of Place [Rosalind Thomas] 12. The Tools of Memory [Sarah Ferrario] 13. Aristotle and History [Lucio Bertelli] Index Locorum Subject Index