内容説明
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.
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List of Contributors
Editor's 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. Thucydides' Persian Wars, Tim Rood
8. Guiding Metaphor and Narrative Point of View in Livy's Ab Vrbe Condita, Mary Jaeger
9. Tacitus' 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
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