Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography (1977 Momigliano), book

Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography (1977) is a book by Arnaldo Momigliano.

Editions and translations

Published in Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1977 and in Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1977. Reprinted in Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1982. Translated into Spanish in Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1993.

Table of contents

• 1.A Piedmontese view of the history of ideas
• 2.The fault of the Greeks
• 3. Eastern elements in post-exilic Jewish, and Greek, historiography
• 4.Athens in the third century B.C. and the discovery of Rome in the histories of Timaeus of Tauromenium
• 5. The historian's skin
• 6. Polybius' reappearance in Western Europe
• 7. Did Fabius Pictor lie?
• 8. Pagan and Christian historiography in the fourth century A.D.
• 9. The lonely historian Ammianus Marcellinus
• 10. Popular religious beliefs and the late Roman historians
• 11. Tradition and the classical historian
• 12. Time in ancient historiography
• 13. The first political commentary on Tacitus
• 14. Perizonius, Niebuhr and the character of early Roman tradition
• 15. Vico's Scienza nuova: Roman 'bestioni' and Roman 'eroi'
• 16. Mabillon's Italian disciples
• 17. Introduction to the Griechische kulturgeschichte by Jacob Burckhardt
• 18. J.G. Droysen between Greeks and Jews
• 19. The ancient city of Fustel de Coulanges
• 20. Reconsidering B. Croce (1866-1952)
• 21. Historicism revisited.

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