Pliny the Elder’s History: Recording the past in the Naturalis Historia
Pliny’s Naturalis Historia is remarkable for its references to its sources throughout the text.
10 Tips for Historians from Ancient Writers
Are you thinking of becoming a historian? Here is some advice from ancient Greek and Roman writers, on what they thought are the traits and practices of being a good historian, as well as some of the pitfalls of the craft.
A Roman Tradition of Alexander the Great Counterfactual History
This paper examines first the scholarly debates surrounding the placement of Livy’s digression in his larger narrative, the objectives of Livy’s digression, and the reasons for its existence.
Herodotus’s The History as a Self-Referential Work
I, Herodotus of Halicarnassus, am here setting forth my history.
Comparing comparisons: ancient East and West
What is comparative history good for? Does it pose special challenges? In our time of accelerating globalization, are we ready to embrace a new inter-discipline, Comparative Classics?
THUCYDIDES CONSTRUCTS HIS SPEAKERS: THE CASE OF DIODOTUS
In a nutshell: there is no way to avoid the conclusion that Thucydides himself is responsible for the most important parts of his speakers’ speeches, that is, that for all practical purposes he composed them.
A canon for the Bronze Age?
Catalogues and databases which are easily accessible to all interested parties regardless of their geographical location, occupation, background or purpose, provide a level playing field for research, publication and debate in the archaeology of the bronze age. The establishment of a canon of reliable, illustrated documentation of as many facets of the Bronze Age as are required, is a prerequisite to the future of our understanding of the Bronze Age.
Myth and History in Oikist Traditions: Archias of Syracuse
In this paper I shall briefly introduce an oikist tradition that grew around the foundation of Syracuse in the middle of the eighth century BCE.
Was Classical Sparta a military society?
Te potency of the military image of Sparta during the twentieth century, supported by powerful modern political analogies, helps to explain why this has been one of the few notions that has remained untransformed by the significant reassessments of the ?hara?ter o? Spartan so?iety produ?ed ?y the
last generation o? s?holarly resear?h.
Instructive Irony in Herodotus: The Socles Scene
By contrasting Corinth