Greek historiography /

• Main Author: Scanlon, Thomas Francis (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015.
• Series: Blackwell introductions to the classical world.
• Subjects: Historiography.; HISTORY / Ancient / Greece; Greece > Historiography.; Greece.; Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

• Origins and early forms
• Herodotus on the limits of happiness: beyond epic, lyric, and logography
• Thucydides on the ends of power
• Xenophon on leadership and moral authority
• History and rhetoric in fourth century historians
• Diversity and innovation in the Hellenistic era
• Polybius on the supremacy of a balanced state
• Greek historians in the Roman era
• Concluding observations on Greek historical writing.