The limits of historiography
Subtitle: genre and narrative in ancient historical texts
By: edited by Christina Shuttleworth Kraus.
Contributors: Kraus, Christina Shuttleworth.
Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava.; 191
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: History, Ancient -- Historiography.; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500.; Literary form -- History -- To 1500.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social pleasures in early Chinese historiography and philosophy / David Schaberg; title: Knowledge and skepticism in ancient Chinese historiography / Wai-Yee Li; title: Local versus general history in Old Hittite historiography / Alexander Uchitel; title: Commemoration, writing, and genre in ancient Mesopotamia / Piotr Michalowski; title: The Persian kings and history / Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg; title: History, historiography, and the use of the past in the Hebrew Bible / Thomas M. Bolin; title: Thucydides' Persian wars / Timothy Rood; title: Guiding metaphor and narrative point of view in Livy's Ab urbe condita / Mary Jaeger; title: Tacitus' Histories and the theory of deliberative oratory / David S. Levene; title: Jugurthine disorder / Christina S. Kraus; title: Universal perspectives in historiography / Katherine Clarke; title: Genre, convention, and innovation in Greco-Roman historiography / John Marincola; title: Epilogue / Christopher Pelling.