Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography / Momigliano/Donanto; ed. by Arnaldo Momigliano, Riccardo Di Donanto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Momigliano/Donanto, Author.

Contributor:

Di Donanto, Riccardo, Editor.

Momigliano, Arnaldo, Editor.

Series:

Sather Classical Lectures

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1992]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Here, at last, are the long-awaited Sather Classical Lectures of the great historian Arnaldo Momigliano, In a masterly survey of the origins of ancient historiography, Momigliano captures those features of an ancient historian's work that not only gave it importance in its own day but also encouraged imitation and exploitation in later centuries. He reveals the extent to which Greek, Persian, and Jewish historians influenced the Western historiographic tradition, and then goes on to examine the first Roman historians and the emergence of national history. In the course of his exposition, he traces the development of antiquarian studies as distinctive branch of historical research from antiquity to the modern period, discusses the place of Tacitus in historical thought, and explores the way in which ecclesiastical historiography has developed a tradition of its own. All these lectures illustrate Momigliano's unrivaled ability to combine the study of classical texts and the history of classical scholarship. First delivered in 1962, the lectures were revised during the next fifteen years and then held for annotation that was never completed. They are now published from the author's manuscripts, collated and checked by Momigliano's literary executor, Anne Marie Meyer, of the Warburg Institute, with a foreword by Riccardo Di Donato, of the University of Pisa. The text is printed as the author left it. Sather Classical Lectures, 54

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Bibliographical Note

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE Persian Historiography, Greek Historiography, and Jewish Historiography

CHAPTER TWO The Herodotean and the Thucydidean Tradition

CHAPTER THREE The Rise of Antiquarian Research

CHAPTER FOUR Fabius Pictor and the Origins of National History

CHAPTER FIVE Tacitus and the Tacitist Tradition

CHAPTER SIX The Origins of Ecclesiastical Historiography

Conclusion

Index of Names

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 09. Dez 2023)

ISBN:

0-520-35460-5

OCLC:

1414455584