Table Of ContentTHE AUTHORITATIVE HISTORIAN
Inthisvolumeaninternationalgroupofscholarsrevisitsthethemesof
John Marincola’s groundbreaking Authority and Tradition in Ancient
Historiography.Thenineteenchaptersofferaseriesofcasestudiesthat
explore how ancient historians’ approaches to their projects were
informedbothbythepulloftraditionandbytheambitiontoinnovate.
Thekeythemesexploredaretherelationofhistoriographytomythand
poetry;thenarrativeauthorityexemplifiedbyHerodotus,the‘father’of
history;theuseof‘fictional’literarydevicesinhistoriography;narratorial
self-presentation; and self-conscious attempts to shape the historio-
graphicaltraditioninnewandboldways.Thevolumepresentsaholistic
vision of the development of Greco-Roman historiography and the
historian’sdynamicpositionwithinthispractice.
. is an Assistant Professor of Classics at
Agnes Scott College. Her research focuses on Greek historiography
and philosophy, and she has published articles on Herodotus,
Thucydides, and the Presocratics. She is finishing a monograph on
Herodotus and intellectual culture, which was awarded a Loeb
Classical Library Foundation Fellowship.
is a Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies (Greek
Culture) at the University of Lincoln. Her main research interests lie
inGreekhistoriography,andshehaspublishedarticlesonAlexanderthe
Great, Herodotus, and Polybius. She is the author of Alexander the
Great.Letters:ASelection().
is a Professor of Greek Literature at the University of
OxfordandFellowandTutorinClassicsatStHugh’sCollege.Heis
theauthorofThucydides:NarrativeandExplanation(),TheSea!
The Sea! (), American Anabasis (), and (with Carol Atack
andTomPhillips)AnachronismandAntiquity().Heisalsothe
co-editor(withLuukHuitink)ofXenophon:AnabasisBookIIIforthe
CambridgeGreek and Latin Classics series ().
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THE AUTHORITATIVE
HISTORIAN
Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography
K. SCARLETT KINGSLEY
AgnesScottCollege
GIUSTINA MONTI
UniversityofLincoln
TIM ROOD
UniversityofOxford
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Contents
List of Contributors page x
Preface xv
List of Abbreviations xvi
Introduction: The Authoritative Historian
K. ScarlettKingsley, GiustinaMonti,and Tim Rood
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Seven Types of Fiction in the Greek Historians
Michael A.Flower
Folktale and Local Tradition in Charon of Lampsacus
Nino Luraghi
Mythical and Historical Time in Herodotus: Scaliger, Jacoby,
and the Chronographic Tradition
Tim Rood
Myth and History in Livy’s Preface
A.J. Woodman
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Herodotus as Tour Guide: The Autopsy Motif
ScottScullion
Interpretive Uncertainty in Herodotus’ Histories
CarolynDewald
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‘It is no accident that ...’: Connectivity and Coincidence
in Herodotus
Richard Rutherford
Through Barbarian Eyes: Non-Greeks on Greeks
in Herodotus
Deborah Boedeker
Singing and Dancing Pindar’s Authority
Lucia Athanassaki
Authority, Experience, and the Vicarious Traveller
in Herodotus’ Histories
K. Scarlett Kingsley
Veni, vidi, vici: When Did Roman Politicians Use the
First-Person Singular?
HarrietI. Flower
Self-Praise and Self-Presentation in Plutarch
FrancesB. Titchener
Thucydides’ Mytilenaean Debate: Political Philosophy
or Authoritative History?
Paul Cartledge
Tradition, Innovation, and Authority: Caesar’s
Historical Ambitions
Kurt A.Raaflaub
Tradition and Authority in Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists
Ewen Bowie
‘When one assumes the ethos of writing history’: Polybius’
Historiographical Neologisms
GiustinaMonti
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Contents ix
How Tradition Is Formed: From the Fall of Caesar
to the Rise of Octavian
Mark Toher
Burn Baby Burn (Disco in Furneaux): Tacitean Authority,
Innovation, and the Neronian Fire (Annals .–)
Rhiannon Ash
The Authority to Be Untraditional
Christopher Pelling
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index
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