The Nature of History in Ancient Greece and Rome
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9298317 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles William Fornara |
| Year | 1983 |
| Publication date | 1983-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Nature of History in Ancient Greece and Rome (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/9780520314405 |
| OpenAlex | W2061106039 |
| Open Library | OL51612426M |
| ISBN | 9780520314405 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 200 |
Ancient history · Geography · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Greece · Historiography · Historiogrpahy · Rome · To 146 B.C
The Power of the Intellectual
Constructing the Narrative
Conclusion
Theory and Method
From the Outside Looking in
Introduction
The Speeches of Outsiders in Acts
Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales
History and Geography in Late Antiquity
Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411–533
Amores 1.1–5
Time for the polis
The Historian's Presence, or, There and Back Again
Voices of Resistance
Roma and Her Tutelary Deity
Juvenal and the Delatores
Allusion and Contrast in the Letters of Nicias (Thuc. 7.11–15) and Pompey (Sall. Hist. 2.98M)
Local histories
Narrative and Speech Problems in Thucydides Book I
Eros and Empire
IV ‘City is history incarnate’
La condamnation du μυθῶδες par Thucydide et sa postérité dans l’historiographie grecque
Horography
Seven Passages of the Annals (and One of Manilius)
Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy on the Horatii and the Curiatii
Divide and Conquer
Scipio the Matchmaker
Munera uestra cano
Pompeius Trogus in Tacitus' Annals
Epilogue
Enemies of Rome? The Symbolic Alternatives
Making a business of time
The Art of Losing
Historiography, Greek and Roman
History, contemporary
Historians and Homer
Fathers and Sons
Rome and Persia 357–9
Persuasion and plausibility
The Spur of Fame
The Great Escape
Romani ueteres atque urbani sales
The Romans Abroad
Velleius Mythistoricus
The world outside the polis
Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
Platonism and Pythagoreanism in the early empire
Xenophon and Isocrates
Naturalism
The Orators
Socrates and Plato
Hegemonic Power in Ephorus of Cyme
Wit and Irony
Introduction
Xenophon’s Apology and Memorabilia
Genres and Generic Contaminations
Speeches in the Commentarii
Caesar in Vergil and Lucan
Christianity
Xenophon and Greek Political Thought
The Peripatos after Aristotle
Justice and the polis
The Expansive Scale of the Roman Antiquities
Xenophon’s Views on Sparta
Two Victorian Egypts of Herodotus
Xenophon’s Changing Fortunes in the Modern World
Narrating the Gallic and Civil Wars with and beyond Caesar
Caesar and Greek Historians
Xenophon’s Place in Fourth-Century Greek Historiography
How Roman Are the Antiquities ? The Decemvirate according to Dionysius
Literary Approaches to Caesar
Innovation and Cliché
Xenophon’s Anabasis and Hellenica
The Politics of Geography
Xenophon and his Times
Epilogue
Writing War with Caesar
Reflections of Roman political thought in Latin historical writing
Xenophon’s Authorial Voice
Xenophon’s Oeconomicus
The Prehistory of the Roman polis in Dionysius
Xenophon on Leadership
Anticato
The Cynics
‘Romantic Poet-Sage of History’
Caesar in Livy and Tacitus
Ways of Killing Women
Herodotus as Anti-classical Toolbox
Josephus
Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography
Xenophon’s Narrative Style
Caesar and Roman Historiography Prior to the Commentarii
Poets, lawgivers, and the beginnings of political reflection in archaic Greece
Xenophon and the Instruction of Princes
Experiencing the Past
Polis Histories, Collective Memories and the Greek World
Nostri and “The Other(s)”
Dionysius and Horace
Herodotus, Thucydides and the sophists
Caesar Constructing Caesar
| Unique citing works | 200 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2025 (40) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 200 |