The limits of historiography : genre and narrative in ancient historical texts /
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 argum...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
1999.
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Mnemosyne, Supplements
191.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 1-203, ISBN: 9789004381049.
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Call Number: D56 .L56 1999
- Preliminary Material /
- Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
- Social Pleasures in Early Chinese Historiography and Philosophy /
- David Schaberg
- Knowledge and Skepticism in Ancient Chinese Historiography /
- Wai-yee Li
- Local versus General History in Old Hittite Historiography /
- Alexander Uchitel
- Commemoration, Writing, and Genre in Ancient Mesopotamia /
- Piotr Michalowski
- The Persian Kings and History /
- Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg
- History, Historiography, and the Use of the Past in the Hebrew Bible /
- Thomas M. Bolin
- Thucydides' Persian Wars /
- Tim Rood
- Guiding Metaphor and Narrative Point of View in Livy's Ab Vrbe Condita /
- Mary Jaeger
- Tacitus' Histories and the Theory of Deliberative Oratory /
- D. S. Levene
- Jugurthine Disorder /
- Christina S. Kraus
- Universal Perspectives in Historiography /
- Katherine Clarke
- Genre, Convention, and Innovation in Greco-Roman Historiography /
- John Marincola
- Epilogue /
- Christopher Pelling
- Index /
- Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
- Supplements to Mnemosyne /
- J. M. Bremer , L. F. Janssen , H. Pinkster , H. W. Pleket , C. J. Ruijgh and P. H. Schrijvers.