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The Limits of Historiography
Genre and Narrative in Ancient Historical Texts
Series: - Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 191
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This volume explores the intersection between historiography and related genres in antiquity. Papers cover the geographical range from China through the near east to the classical period in the Mediterranean. Topics addressed include the place in ancient Chinese historiography of philosophical argument; the nature and kind of historical text in the Hittite, Babylonian, Persian and biblical periods, including (for the first time) a full transliteration and translation of the Old Hittite story of Anum-hirbi and Zalpa, and a new interpretation of the Darius inscription at Behistun; and the relation of rhetorical stratagems and theory to Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus. Contributors also consider the relationship between texts, including the war narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides, and the propriety of different schemes of generic classification.
Christina Shuttleworth Kraus, Ph.D. (1988) in Classical Philology, Harvard University, is CUF Lecturer in the University of Oxford and Munro Fellow and Tutor in Classical Languages and Literature at Oriel College, Oxford. She has published books and papers on Roman historiography and on Greek tragic narrative, and is working on a commentary on Caesar, De bello gallico VII.
'...this is an extremely rich volume. It offers not only provocative and important studies of individual historians, but a range of ideas on narrative technique which may productively be applied in our readings of other historical texts.'
Neville Morley, The Classical Review, 2000.
Neville Morley, The Classical Review, 2000.
List of Contributors
Editorâs Preface
1. Social Pleasures in Early Chinese Historiography and Philosophy, David Schaberg
2. Knowledge and Skepticism in Ancient Chinese Historiography, Wai-Yee LI
3. Local versus General History in Old Hittite Historiography, Alexander Uchitel
4. Commemoration, Writing, and Genre in Ancient Mesopotamia, Piotr Michalowski
5. The Persian Kings and History, Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg
6. History, Historiography, and the Use of the Past in the Hebrew Bible, Thomas M. Bolin
7. Thucydidesâ Persian Wars, Tim Rood
8. Guiding Metaphor and Narrative Point of View in Livyâs Ab Vrbe Condita, Mary Jaeger
9. Tacitusâ Histories and the Theory of Deliberative Oratory, D. S. Levene
10. Jugurthine Disorder, Christina S. Kraus
11. Universal Perspectives in Historiography, Katherine Clarke
12. Genre, Convention, and Innovation in Greco-Roman Historiography, John Marincola
13. Epilogue, Christopher Pelling
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Editorâs Preface
1. Social Pleasures in Early Chinese Historiography and Philosophy, David Schaberg
2. Knowledge and Skepticism in Ancient Chinese Historiography, Wai-Yee LI
3. Local versus General History in Old Hittite Historiography, Alexander Uchitel
4. Commemoration, Writing, and Genre in Ancient Mesopotamia, Piotr Michalowski
5. The Persian Kings and History, Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg
6. History, Historiography, and the Use of the Past in the Hebrew Bible, Thomas M. Bolin
7. Thucydidesâ Persian Wars, Tim Rood
8. Guiding Metaphor and Narrative Point of View in Livyâs Ab Vrbe Condita, Mary Jaeger
9. Tacitusâ Histories and the Theory of Deliberative Oratory, D. S. Levene
10. Jugurthine Disorder, Christina S. Kraus
11. Universal Perspectives in Historiography, Katherine Clarke
12. Genre, Convention, and Innovation in Greco-Roman Historiography, John Marincola
13. Epilogue, Christopher Pelling
Index
All those interested in classics, biblical studies, Near Eastern or Chinese studies, narratology, historiography, and genre, as well as academic libraries and institutes.