The Idea Of Universal History In Greece: From Herodotus To The Age Of Augustus (amsterdam Classical Monographs)

This is an expanded version of a lecture given in the Departments of History and Classics at Harvard in 1998. Starting from a methodological point of view, this book show the evolution of the idea of world history through the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Ctesias, Ephorus, Polybius and others up to the historians of the Augustan epoch. Dedication Foreword Table of Contents Introduction 1. The appearance of universal historiography in Greece: Herodotus 2. Greek history and interest in Persia: Thucydides, Xenophon and Ctesias 3. Isocrates and the Panhellenic movement. The forerunner of universal historiography: Ephorus 4 . The rise of Macedonia. Theopompus. Aristotle and his school: Aristoxenus and Demetrius of Phalerum 5. The empire of Alexander and his historians. General historiography: Hieronymus of Cardia. The geographical expansion of historical knowledge: Timaeus and Megasthenes. Hellenism. Judaism: The Book of Daniel 6. The emergence of Rome. The shaping of universal historiography: Polybius 7. Roman imperialism. Stoicism and universal historiography: Posidonius and Diodorus 8. The Augustan empire and the historians of the Augustan epoch: Nicolaus of Damascus, Strabo, Pompeius Trogus and Dionysius of Halicarnassos Conclusions Appendix A Chronology of authors and works B Maps C The structure of Pompeius Trogus’ Historiae Philippicae D The universal historians in the History of Historiography Bibliography Indices a. Index of ancient authors b . Index of subjects c. Index of modem authors d. List of abbreviations