Greek Historiography

Thomas F. Scanlon is Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages at the University of California, Riverside. He has published several books on Greek and Roman history, including most recently Sport in the Greek and Roman Worlds (2014) and Eros and Greek Athletics (2002).

Preface vi Abbreviations ix Chapter 1: Origins and Early Forms of Greek Historiography 1 Chapter 2: Herodotus and the Limits of Happiness: Beyond Epic, Lyric, and Logography 26 Chapter 3: Thucydides on the Ends of Power 69 Chapter 4: Xenophon on Leadership and Moral Authority 126 Chapter 5: History and Rhetoric in Fourth ]Century Historians 160 Chapter 6: Diversity and Innovation in the Hellenistic Era 190 Chapter 7: Polybius on the Supremacy of a Balanced State 202 Chapter 8: Greek Historians in the Roman Era 237 Chapter 9: Concluding Observations on Greek Historical Writing 276 Further Reading 291 Index Locorum 300 Index 317