The Cambridge companion to the Roman historians

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Introduction / Andrew Feldherr

Ancient audiences and expectations / John Marincola

Postmodern historiographical theory and the Roman historians / William W. Batstone

Historians without history : against Roman historiography / J.E. Lendon

Alternatives to written history in Republican Rome / Harriet I. Flower

Roman historians and the Greeks : audiences and models / John Dillery

Cato's Origines : the historian and his enemies / Ulrich Gotter

Polybius / James Davidson

Time / Denis Feeney

Space / Andrew M. Riggsby

Religion in historiography / Jason Davies

Virtue and violence : the historians on politics / Joy Connolly

The rhetoric of Roman historiography / Andrew Laird

The exemplary past in Roman historiography and culture / Matthew Roller

Intertextuality and historiography / Ellen O'Gorman

Characterization and complexity : Caesar, Sallust, and Livy / Ann Vasaly

Representing the emperor / Caroline Vout

Women in Roman historiography / Kristina Milnor

Barbarians I : Quintus Curtius' and other Roman historians' reception of Alexander / Elizabeth Baynham

Barbarians II : Tacitus' Jews / Andrew Feldherr

Josephus / Honora Chapman

The Roman exempla tradition in imperial Greek historiography : the case of Camillus / Alain M. Gowing

Ammianus Marcellinus : Tacitus' heir and Gibbon's guide / Gavin Kelly

Ancient Roman historians and early modern political theory / Benedetto Fontana

Re-writing history for the early modern stage : Racine's Roman tragedies / Volker Schröder

The Roman historians and twentieth-century approaches to Roman history / Emma Dench