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Informationen zum Autor Thomas F. Scanlon is Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages at the University of California, Riverside. He has published several books on Greek and Roman history, including most recently Sport in the Greek and Roman Worlds (2014) and Eros and Greek Athletics (2002). Klappentext In this comprehensive new volume, Thomas Scanlon provides an accessible and up-to-date survey of the ancient Greek genre of historical writing from its origins before Herodotus to the Greek historians of the Roman imperial era, seven centuries later. Situating historical writing among the forms of epic and lyric poetry, drama, philosophy, and science for which the Greeks are already so well known, Greek Historiography examines individual historian's perspectives on power and human nature as a means of tracing the early evolution of ancient Greek history. From Thucydides to Polybius, the volume considers pervading questions of causation, divine justice, leadership, civilization versus barbarism, legacy, and literary reception. Alongside sophisticated close reading, Scanlon provides thorough summaries that signpost key passages and highlight thematic links to help readers navigate their way through the original texts. Citing the most up-to-date translations and featuring a comprehensive list of further reading that includes important new scholarship, Greek Historiography will prove to be an essential tool for anyone interested in better understanding the evolution of Greek historical writing. Zusammenfassung This volume provides an accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date survey of the ancient Greek genre of historical writing from its origins before Herodotus to the Greek historians of the Roman imperial era, seven centuries later. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface viAbbreviations ixChapter 1: Origins and Early Forms of Greek Historiography 1Chapter 2: Herodotus and the Limits of Happiness: Beyond Epic, Lyric, and Logography 26Chapter 3: Thucydides on the Ends of Power 69Chapter 4: Xenophon on Leadership and Moral Authority 126Chapter 5: History and Rhetoric in Fourth?]Century Historians 160Chapter 6: Diversity and Innovation in the Hellenistic Era 190Chapter 7: Polybius on the Supremacy of a Balanced State 202Chapter 8: Greek Historians in the Roman Era 237Chapter 9: Concluding Observations on Greek Historical Writing 276Further Reading 291Index Locorum 300Index 317...
