What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology, translated and edited by Professor John Marincola, contains all the seminal texts th
This book argues that Herodian uses an orderly and coherent historiographical form to reconfigure and explicate a most chaotic period of Roman history. Through
The volume collects fourteen essays on Herodian that investigate the most important aspects of his historiography: literature, politics, economy, religion and w
"Burstein’s The Essential Greek Historians is an excellent collection of texts representing the development of historiography in the ancient Greek world. Each
This book examines authority in discourse from ancient to modern historians, while also presenting instances of current subversions of the classical rhetorical