Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Origins and Early Forms of Greek Historiography -- Prologue -- Choosing and Using History -- Oral Culture and Archaic Poetry -- Out of Homer or Not? -- The Ionian Connection -- History Prefigured or Forestalled in Archaic Poetry? -- Why No Historical Tragedies? -- Falsehood and Fashioning, or Veracity, Verisimilitude, and "Versionification" -- Rhetoric and History -- The Logographers: From the Silly to the Serious -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Herodotus and the Limits of Happiness: Beyond Epic, Lyric, and Logography -- Life and Times -- Composition and Structure -- Theme 1: Human Nature and Happiness -- Theme 2: Power -- Themes, "Top Stories," and the Logic of logoi -- Book 1 -- Book 2 -- Book 3 -- Book 4 -- Book 5 -- Book 6 -- Book 7 -- Book 8 -- Book 9 -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Thucydides on the Ends of Power -- Life and Times -- Composition, Style, and Structure of the Work -- The Nature and Culture of Power -- Human Nature, Norms and Exceptions -- Themes and Significant Passages -- Book 1: The "Archaeology" -- Book 2 -- Book 3 -- Book 4 -- Book 5 -- The Melian Dialogue, 5.84-116 -- Book 6 -- Book 7 -- Book 8 -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Xenophon on Leadership and Moral Authority -- Life and Times -- The Anabasis -- Themes of the Anabasis -- Narrative of the Anabasis -- Hellenica -- Themes of the Hellenica -- Narrative of the Hellenica -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 History and Rhetoric in Fourth-Century Historians -- History and Representation -- Philosophy and History -- The Historians -- The Atthidographers -- The Oxyrhynchus Historian -- Ephorus and Theopompus -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 Diversity and Innovation in the Hellenistic Era -- The Early Historians of Alexander.

The Historians of Western Greece -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 Polybius on the Supremacy of a Balanced State -- Life and Times -- Readership, Structure, and Character of the Work -- Themes and Significant Passages -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 Greek Historians in the Roman Era -- Greek Literature in a Roman Context -- Fabius Pictor -- Posidonius -- Diodorus Siculus -- Greek Historians of the Imperial Period -- Dionysius of Halicarnassus -- The Empire and the Biographic Turn -- Josephus -- Appian -- Arrian -- Dio Cassius -- Herodian -- Late Ancient Legacy -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 Concluding Observations on Greek Historical Writing -- The Evolution of a Genre -- Formal Aspects of Ancient Historiography -- Power, Metaforces, Historical Philosophies, and Continuities -- Human Nature -- Supernatural Forces -- Causation -- Leadership -- Civilization and the "Barbarians" -- Legacy -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Electronic Editions -- General Books on the Greek Historians -- Chapter 1 Origins and Early Forms -- Chapter 2 Herodotus -- Translations -- General Discussion -- Chapter 3 Thucydides -- Translations -- General Discussion -- Chapter 4 Xenophon -- Translations -- General Discussions -- Chapter 5 The Fourth Century -- General Discussion -- The Oxyrhynchus Historian -- Ephorus -- Theopompus -- The Atthidographers -- Chapter 6 The Hellenistic Historians -- Chapter 7 Polybius -- Translations -- General Discussion -- Chapter 8 Greek Historians in the Roman Era -- General -- Fabius Pictor -- Posidonius -- Diodorus Siculus -- Nicolaus of Damascus -- Dionysius of Halicarnassus -- Flavius Josephus -- Appian -- Arrian -- Cassius Dio -- Herodian -- Index Locorum -- Index -- EULA.