A collection of important recent articles discussing the ways in which the ancient Greeks and Romans thought about and wrote their histories. Six articles are newly translated into English, while a specially written introduction places the essays in the larger context of earlier and more recent trends in the study of classical historiography.

• Introduction


• I. Constructing the Past: Myth, Memory and History


• 1: Nicole Loraux: Thucydides is Not a Colleague


• 2: Hans-Joachim Gehrke: Myth, History, Politics - Ancient and Modern


• 3: Rosalind Thomas: Genealogy and the Genealogists


• 4: Guido Schepens: Some Aspects of Source Theory in Greek Historiography


• 5: Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg: The Tradition about Early Rome and Oral History


• 6: Dieter Timpe: Memoria and Historiography at Rome


• 7: T. J. Cornell: Etruscan Historiography


• II. Rhetoric, Truth, and Falsehood


• 8: P. A. Brunt: Cicero and Historiography


• 9: A. J. Woodman: Cicero and the Writing of History


• 10: T. J. Luce: Ancient Views on the Causes of Bias in Historical Writing


• 11: T. P. Wiseman: Lying Historians: Seven Types of Mendacity


• 12: Emilio Gabba: True History and False History in Classical Antiquity


• III. History and Poetry


• 13: Luciano Canfora: The Historical 'Cycle'


• 14: F. W. Walbank: History and Tragedy


• 15: Hermann Funke: Poetry and Historiography