Essays in ancient and modern historiography
By: Arnaldo Momigliano ; with a new foreword by Anthony Grafton
Contributors: Grafton, Anthony
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226533858; 9780226533865
Subjects: Historiography; Ancient History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A Piedmontese view of the history of ideas; title: The fault of the Greeks; title: Eastern elements in post-exilic Jewish, and Greek, historiography; title: Athens in the third century B.C. and the discovery of Rome in the histories of Timaeus of Tauromenium; title: The historian's skin; title: Polybius' reappearance in western Europe; title: Did Fabius Pictor lie?; title: Pagan and Christian historiography in the fourth century A.D; title: The lonely historian Ammianus Marcellinus; title: Popular religious beliefs and the late Roman historians; title: Tradition and the classical historian; title: Time in ancient historiography; title: The first political commentary on Tacitus; title: Perizonius, Niebuhr and the character of early Roman tradition; title: Vico's scienza nuova: Roman "bestioni" and Roman "eroi"; title: Mabillon's Italian disciplies; title: Introduction to the Griechische Kulturgeschichte by Jacob Burckhardt; title: J. G. Droysen between Greeks and Jews; title: The ancient city of Fustel de Coulanges; title: Reconsidering B. Croce (1866-1952); title: Historicism revisited.