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Cover 1 Literary Texts and the Roman Historian 4 Copyright 5 Contents 7 Preface 9 Introduction 11 The plan of the book 12 Chapter 1 Definitions 15 Historia as inquiry, historia as story 19 Truth and history 22 Some rules 28 Chapter 2 Texts 30 Sorting things out 30 Participant evidence 33 Publication and literary fashion 39 Illustrative evidence 51 Narrative 70 Reconstructing fragmentary authors 81 Chapter 3 Scholarship 90 Standards of research 90 Historians and records 93 Quellenforschung 101 Near Eastern records of the past and the Roman imagination 107 Grammarians and historians 114 The physical process 118 Conclusion 129 Chapter 4 Presentation 132 The problem 132 Leopold von Ranke 134 Objectivism and relativism 138 Fact and presentation: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Lucian 142 Fact and presentation: Cicero 148 Other forms of presentation: chronicles and chronographies 151 Verisimilitude 157 Conclusion 163 Epilogue: the discourse of dominance? 165 Appendix: Classical authors discussed in the text 169 Notes 179 Select Bibliography 220 Index 230
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David S. Potter
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction