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"Roman historiography : an introduction to its basic aspects and development presents a comprehensive introduction to the development of Roman historical writings in the ancient world. Andreas Mehl traces the arc of ancient historical writing about Rome from its origins with the authors of clan history and fragmentary annalists to the writings of Byzantine scholar Procopius, the last major historian of the ancient world. Rooting his survey in the context of its Greek predecessors, and within the broader frame Roman literature and society, Mehl discusses every historical writer of significance in the ancient Roman era and provides much more than simple biographical detail. Also considered are essential themes such as genre, teleology, the idea of Rome, and exemplary moral conduct. By paying scrupulous attention to political context and religious developments throughout the ancient world, Mehl reveals the evolution and interpenetration of both pagan and Christian historiography. This title offers a wealthof illuminating insights into the origins and development of the crucial historical writings of the living witnesses to the greatest empire the world has ever known"--Provided by publisher.

"Roman historiography : an introduction to its basic aspects and development presents a comprehensive introduction to the development of Roman historical writings in the ancient world. Andreas Mehl traces the arc of ancient historical writing about Rome from its origins with the authors of clan history and fragmentary annalists to the writings of Byzantine scholar Procopius, the last major historian of the ancient world. Rooting his survey in the context of its Greek predecessors, and within the broader frame Roman literature and society, Mehl discusses every historical writer of significance in the ancient Roman era and provides much more than simple biographical detail. Also considered are essential themes such as genre, teleology, the idea of Rome, and exemplary moral conduct. By paying scrupulous attention to political context and religious developments throughout the ancient world, Mehl reveals the evolution and interpenetration of both pagan and Christian historiography. This title offers a wealth of illuminating insights into the origins and development of the crucial historical writings of the living witnesses to the greatest empire the world has ever known"--Provided by publisher.

Roman Historiography: An Introduction to its Basic Aspects and Development presents a comprehensive introduction to the development of Roman historical writings in the ancient world. Andreas Mehl traces the arc of ancient historical writing about Rome from its origins with the authors of clan history and fragmentary annalists to the writings of Byzantine scholar Procopius, the last major historian of the ancient world.

Rooting his survey in the context of its Greek predecessors, and within the broader framework of Roman literature and society, Mehl discusses every historical writer of significance in the ancient Roman era and provides much more than simple biographical detail. Also considered are essential themes such as genre, teleology, the idea of Rome, and exemplary moral conduct. By paying scrupulous attention to political context and religious developments throughout the ancient world, Mehl reveals the evolution and interpenetration of both pagan and Christian historiography.

This title offers a wealth of illuminating insights into the origins and development of the crucial historical writings of the living witnesses to the greatest empire the world has ever known.

This English translation of the 2001 original publication Romisch Geschichtsschreibung brings this comprehensive survey of Roman historiography to a new audience of students interested in the most important historical writers of the era with emphasis on the themes and styles that made the Roman era of scholarship unique. Chapters cover each of the important Roman historical writers and include biographical information, sample texts and discussion that link each historian to the broader discussion of Roman historiography. Appropriate for advanced undergraduate students, this work provides a foundation for further study of classical historical writing. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Roman Historiography: An Introduction to its Basic Aspects and Development presents a comprehensive introduction to the development of Roman historical writings in both Greek and Latin, from the early annalists to Orosius and Procopius of Byzantium.
  • Provides an accessible survey of every historical writer of significance in the Roman world
  • Traces the growth of Christian historiography under the influence of its pagan adversaries
  • Offers valuable insight into current scholarly trends on Roman historiography
  • Includes a user-friendly bibliography, catalog of authors and editions, and index
  • Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title

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The book can be used either as a whole or as a reference for individual authors and ages and is well worth owning and studying.  (New England Classical Journal, 1 May 2015)  

Named CHOICE Outstanding Title for 2012

"Appropriate for advanced undergraduate students, this work provides a foundation for further study of classical historical writing. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)." (Book News, 1 August 2011)  

Translator's Preface ix
Introduction: The Importance of Ancient Historiography and the Purpose of this Book 1(8)
Chapter 1 Ancient Literature and Roman Historiography 9(24)
1.1 Roman Literature and its Relation to Greek Literature
9(3)
1.2 Roman Historiography and the City of Rome
12(5)
1.3 The Claims of Artistry and Truth in Ancient, especially Roman, Historiography
17(16)
1.3.1 Literary Artistry and Moral Preoccupations in Ancient Historiography
18(8)
1.3.2 "History is what Actually Happened" – Ancient Historiography and the Modern Science of History
26(7)
Chapter 2 The Formation and Establishment of Tradition in the Ruling Class of the Early and Middle Roman Republic 33(8)
2.1 Family Histories and Clan Traditions
34(3)
2.2 The Annales Maximi and the Almanacs of Publius Mucius Scaevola
37(4)
Chapter 3 Early Roman Historiography: Self-Justification and Memory in earlier Annalistic Writing 41(22)
3.1 Early Annalistic Writing (I)
43(6)
3.1.1 Quintus Fabius Pictor
43(5)
3.1.2 Later Authors (From Cincius Alimentus to Postumius Albinus)
48(1)
3.2 Early Annalistic Writing (II)
49(11)
3.2.1 Marcus Porcius Cato
51(4)
3.2.2 Other Authors (from Cassius Hemina to Sempronius Asellio)
55(5)
3.3 Early Historical Epic in Rome (Naevius and Ennius)
60(3)
Chapter 4 The Historiography of Rome between the Fronts of the Civil Wars 63(35)
4.1 Later Annalistic Writing: Optimates vs. Populares and Traditional Annalistic Writing vs. Contemporary History
66(3)
4.2 Autobiographies, Memoirs, Hypomnemata, Commentarii, and their Influence on the Historiography of Current Events
69(8)
4.2.1 Self-Representations until Cicero
71(1)
4.2.2 Caesar's Commentarii
72(5)
4.3 The History of Current Events Made to Order and Contemporary Concepts of Historiography (Cicero)
77(4)
4.4 Biography (Cornelius Nepos)
81(3)
4.5 The Experience of the Collapsing and Ruined Republic
84(12)
4.5.1 Gaius Sallustius Crispus
84(10)
4.5.2 Gaius Asinius Pollio
94(2)
4.6 Antiquarian Writings
96(2)
Chapter 5 Augustan Rome, Roman Empire, and other Peoples and Kingdoms 98(23)
5.1 Titus Livius: Roman History from Romulus to Augustus in its Entirety
100(10)
5.2 World History, the History of the World beyond Rome, and Roman History by Non-Romans and New Romans
110(11)
5.2.1 World History and Roman History (from Diodorus to Juba)
111(3)
5.2.2 Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Early Rome and the Greeks
114(2)
5.2.3 Pompeius Trogus: World History round about Rome
116(3)
5.2.4 Universal Chronology (Castor and Dionysius)
119(2)
Chapter 6 Imperial History and the History of Emperors Imperial History as the History of Emperors 121(78)
6.1 Empire and "Republic": Senatorial Historiography
127(29)
6.1.1 Gaius (?) Velleius Paterculus
130(3)
6.1.2 Authors of the Julio-Claudian and Flavian Period (from Cremutius Cordus to Pliny the Younger)
133(3)
6.1.3 Publius (?) Cornelius Tacitus
136(15)
6.1.4 Lucius Cl(audius) Cassius Dio Cocceianus
151(5)
6.2 Rome and Foreign Peoples
156(9)
6.2.1 Josephus / Flavius Josephus: Jews and Others
157(5)
6.2.2 Appian of Alexandria: A Retrospective View of the Establishment of Rome's World Domination
162(3)
6.3 Imperial History as Imperial Biography
165(13)
6.3.1 Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
166(4)
6.3.2 Marius Maximus and Herodian
170(1)
6.3.3 Historia Augusta/Scriptores Historiae Augustae
171(7)
6.4 Personal History and Biography in the High Empire beyond Roman Emperors
178(8)
6.4.1 Curtius Rufus and Arrian of Nicomedia: Histories of Alexander
178(5)
6.4.2 Plutarch of Chaeronea: Parallel Lives
183(3)
6.5 History in "Pocket-Size"
186(11)
6.5.1 From the Epitome of Livy, the Epitome of Trogus, and Florus to Lucius Ampelius
187(4)
6.5.2 The Historical Epitomes of the Fourth Century A.D. (Aurelius Victor, Eutropius, Festus)
191(6)
6.6 Exempla-Literature and Historical Understanding
197(2)
Chapter 7 Roman History and Universal History between Classical Religion ("Paganism") and Christianity 199(44)
7.1 Zosimus and his Predecessors: Classically Religious Historiography and Historical Interpretation in a Christian Age
203(4)
7.2 Ammianus Marcellinus: Indifferent to Religion?
207(9)
7.3 Christian Historiography
216(48)
7.3.1 Church History (Eusebius and Rufinus)
219(4)
7.3.2 From Classically Religious Chronography to Christian Universal Chronicle (Eusebius, Jerome, Sulpicius)
223(6)
7.3.3 Orosius: Universal History through the Lens of Theology
229(8)
7.3.4 Procopius of Caesarea: The History of Current Events in Transition from Rome to Byzantium
237(6)
Chapter 8 Some Basic Principles of Ancient Historical Thought 243(9)
Chronological Table 252(3)
Notes 255(9)
Select Bibliography 264(23)
1 General Bibliography
264(11)
1.1 Editions, Translations, and Commentaries for the Historiographical and Biographical Works Treated in this Book
264(6)
1.2 Editions of Historiographical Works and Historical Epics in Greek and Latin that Survive only in Fragments
270(1)
1.3 Histories of Greek and Latin Literature, especially Historiography: Recent Surveys and Collections
271(1)
1.4 Ancient Historiography, especially Roman: its Basic Literary, Social, and Intellectual Contexts
272(3)
2 The Formation and Establishment of Tradition in the Ruling Class of the Early and Middle Roman Republic
275(1)
3 Early Roman Historiography: Self-Justification and Memory in Early Annalistic Writing
276(1)
4 The Historiography of Rome between the Fronts of the Civil Wars
277(2)
5 Augustan Rome, Roman Empire, and other Peoples and Kingdoms
279(1)
6 Imperial History and the History of Emperors, Imperial History as the History of Emperors
280(4)
7 Roman History and Universal History between Classical Religion ("Paganism") and Christianity
284(3)
Index 287
ANDREAS MEHL is Professor of Ancient History at the Martin Luther University at Halle and Wittenberg. He is the author of Seleukos Nikator und sein Reich (1986); Tacitus über Kaiser Claudius: Die Ereignisse Am Hof (1974); and Römische Geschichtsschreibung: Grundlagen und Entwicklungen: eine Einführung (Stuttgart, 2001).

HANS-FRIEDRICH MUELLER is the William D. Williams Professor of Classics at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He is the author of Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus (2002) and the editor of an abridgment of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (2003).