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THE AUTHORITATIVE HISTORIAN Inthisvolumeaninternationalgroupofscholarsrevisitsthethemesof John Marincola’s groundbreaking Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography.Thenineteenchaptersofferaseriesofcasestudiesthat explore how ancient historians’ approaches to their projects were informedbothbythepulloftraditionandbytheambitiontoinnovate. Thekeythemesexploredaretherelationofhistoriographytomythand poetry;thenarrativeauthorityexemplifiedbyHerodotus,the‘father’of history;theuseof‘fictional’literarydevicesinhistoriography;narratorial self-presentation; and self-conscious attempts to shape the historio- graphicaltraditioninnewandboldways.Thevolumepresentsaholistic vision of the development of Greco-Roman historiography and the historian’sdynamicpositionwithinthispractice. . is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Agnes Scott College. Her research focuses on Greek historiography and philosophy, and she has published articles on Herodotus, Thucydides, and the Presocratics. She is finishing a monograph on Herodotus and intellectual culture, which was awarded a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship. is a Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies (Greek Culture) at the University of Lincoln. Her main research interests lie inGreekhistoriography,andshehaspublishedarticlesonAlexanderthe Great, Herodotus, and Polybius. She is the author of Alexander the Great.Letters:ASelection(). is a Professor of Greek Literature at the University of OxfordandFellowandTutorinClassicsatStHugh’sCollege.Heis theauthorofThucydides:NarrativeandExplanation(),TheSea! The Sea! (), American Anabasis (), and (with Carol Atack andTomPhillips)AnachronismandAntiquity().Heisalsothe co-editor(withLuukHuitink)ofXenophon:AnabasisBookIIIforthe CambridgeGreek and Latin Classics series (). blih d li b C bid i i blih d li b C bid i i THE AUTHORITATIVE HISTORIAN Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography K. SCARLETT KINGSLEY AgnesScottCollege GIUSTINA MONTI UniversityofLincoln TIM ROOD UniversityofOxford blih d li b C bid i i ShaftesburyRoad,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,,USA WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India PenangRoad,#–/,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartofCambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment, adepartmentoftheUniversityofCambridge. WesharetheUniversity’smissiontocontributetosocietythroughthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ :./ ©CambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisions ofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytake placewithoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment. Firstpublished AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData :Kingsley,K.Scarlett,-editor.|Monti,Giustina,-editor.|Rood,Tim, -editor. :Theauthoritativehistorian:traditionandinnovationinancienthistoriography/editedbyK. ScarlettKingsley,GiustinaMonti,TimRood. :Cambridge,UnitedKingdom;NewYork,NY:CambridgeUniversityPress,[]| Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. :(print)|(ebook)| (hardback)|(paperback)|(epub) ::History,Ancient–Historiography. :. (print)| (ebook)|./–dc/eng/ LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/ LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/ ----Hardback CambridgeUniversityPress&Assessmenthasnoresponsibilityforthepersistence oraccuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhis publicationanddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwill remain,accurateorappropriate. blih d li b C bid i i For John Marincola blih d li b C bid i i blih d li b C bid i i Contents List of Contributors page x Preface xv List of Abbreviations xvi Introduction: The Authoritative Historian K. ScarlettKingsley, GiustinaMonti,and Tim Rood , , ’ Seven Types of Fiction in the Greek Historians Michael A.Flower Folktale and Local Tradition in Charon of Lampsacus Nino Luraghi Mythical and Historical Time in Herodotus: Scaliger, Jacoby, and the Chronographic Tradition Tim Rood Myth and History in Livy’s Preface A.J. Woodman ’ Herodotus as Tour Guide: The Autopsy Motif ScottScullion Interpretive Uncertainty in Herodotus’ Histories CarolynDewald vii blih d li b C bid i i viii Contents ‘It is no accident that ...’: Connectivity and Coincidence in Herodotus Richard Rutherford Through Barbarian Eyes: Non-Greeks on Greeks in Herodotus Deborah Boedeker Singing and Dancing Pindar’s Authority Lucia Athanassaki Authority, Experience, and the Vicarious Traveller in Herodotus’ Histories K. Scarlett Kingsley Veni, vidi, vici: When Did Roman Politicians Use the First-Person Singular? HarrietI. Flower Self-Praise and Self-Presentation in Plutarch FrancesB. Titchener Thucydides’ Mytilenaean Debate: Political Philosophy or Authoritative History? Paul Cartledge Tradition, Innovation, and Authority: Caesar’s Historical Ambitions Kurt A.Raaflaub Tradition and Authority in Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists Ewen Bowie ‘When one assumes the ethos of writing history’: Polybius’ Historiographical Neologisms GiustinaMonti blih d li b C bid i i Contents ix How Tradition Is Formed: From the Fall of Caesar to the Rise of Octavian Mark Toher Burn Baby Burn (Disco in Furneaux): Tacitean Authority, Innovation, and the Neronian Fire (Annals .–) Rhiannon Ash The Authority to Be Untraditional Christopher Pelling Bibliography Index Locorum General Index blih d li b C bid i i
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