This book consists of 22 papers originally presented during the conference on ancient historical writing held in May 2007 in WrocÅaw, Poland. The focus of the volume is, on the one hand, on the ancient historians' methods of approaching the external world, especially a non-Greek…
The focus of this volume is, on the one hand, on the ancient historians' methods of approaching the external world, especially a non-Greek (or non-Roman) world, and, on the other, on the political dimension of historical writing, especially of Roman imperial historiography.
Consists of 22 papers, presented during the conference on ancient historical writing held in Wroclaw, Poland. This volume focuses on the ancient historians' methods of approaching the external world, especially a non-Greek (or non-Roman) world, and, on the political dimension of…