Arrian’s Alexandrou Anabasis constitutes the most reliable account at our disposal about Alexander the Great's campaign in Asia. However, whereas the...
A significant trend in the study of Greek and Roman historiographers is to accept that their works are to a degree both science and fiction. As...
The use of suspense in ancient literature attracts increasing attention in modern scholarship, but hitherto there has been no comprehensive work...
The fact that aspects of witnesses and evidence put them in the centre of the institutional and cultural (e.g. religious, literary) construction of...
Since antiquity, Book 8 of Thucydides’ History has been considered an unpolished draft which lacks revision. Even those who admit that the book...
This book is a collective volume on classical historiography. Approaching the ancient Greek and Roman historical texts from a literary point of view...