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This volume explores the intersection between historiography and related genres in antiquity. Papers cover the geographical range from China through the near east to the classical period in the Mediterranean. Topics addressed include the place in ancient Chinese historiography of philosophical argument; the nature and kind of historical text in the Hittite, Babylonian, Persian and biblical periods, including (for the first time) a full transliteration and translation of the Old Hittite story of Anum-hirbi and Zalpa, and a new interpretation of the Darius inscription at Behistun; and the relation of rhetorical stratagems and theory to Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus. Contributors also consider the relationship between texts, including the war narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides, and the propriety of different schemes of generic classification.

Genres [Letterkundige ] --- Genres [Literaire ] --- Genres littéraires --- Letterkundige genres --- Literaire genres --- Literary form --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narration (Rhétorique) --- Narrative writing --- Verhaal (Retoriek) --- History, Ancient --- Histoire ancienne --- Narration --- Historiography. --- History --- History and criticism --- Historiographie --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- -Narration (Rhetoric) --- -Form, Literary --- Forms, Literary --- Forms of literature --- Genre (Literature) --- Genre, Literary --- Genres, Literary --- Genres of literature --- Literary forms --- Literary genetics --- Literary genres --- Literary types (Genres) --- Literature --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Ancient history --- Ancient world history --- World history --- Historiography --- -History, Ancient --- -Historiography --- Genres littéraires --- History [Ancient ] --- Literary form. --- Form, Literary --- To 1500 --- History, Ancient - Historiography. --- Narration (Rhetoric) - History - To 1500. --- Literary form - History - To 1500. --- History and criticism.

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In recent years, the discipline of Classics has been experiencing a profound transformation affecting not only its methodologies and hermeneutic practices - how classicists read and interpret ancient literature - but also, and more importantly, the objects of classical study themselves. One of the most important factors has been the establishment of reception studies, examining the ways in which classical literature and culture have been appropriated or responded to in later ages and/or non-western cultures. This temporal and cultural expansion beyond the 'traditional' remit of the field has had many salutary effects, but reception studies are not without limitations: of particular consequence is a tendency to focus almost exclusively on the most canonical Greek and Latin texts which is partly due to the sheer scale on which they have been received, adapted, discussed, and alluded to since antiquity. By definition, reception studies are uninterested in texts which have had no 'success', but the result of an implicit adoption of canonicity as an unspoken criterion is the marginalization of other texts which, despite their inherent value, have not experienced so significant a Nachleben. This volume seeks to move beyond the questions of what is central, what is marginal, and why, to explore instead the range and significance of the classical canon and the processes by which it is shaped and changed by its reception in different academic and cultural environments. By examining the academic study of Classics from the interrelated titular perspectives of marginality, canonicity, and passion, it aims to unveil their many subtle implications and reopen a discussion not only about what makes the discipline unique, but also about what direction it might take in the future.

Classical literature --- Classical literature. --- History and criticism.

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This collection explores the issues raised by the writing and reading of commentaries on classical Greek and Latin texts. Written primarily by practising commentators, the papers examine philosophical, narratological, and historiographical commentaries; ancient, Byzantine, and Renaissance commentary practice and theory, with special emphasis on Galen, Tzetzes, and La Cerda; the relationship between the author of the primary text, the commentary writer, and the reader; special problems posed by fragmentary and spurious texts; the role and scope of citation, selectivity, lemmatization, and revision; the practical future of commentary-writing and publication; and the way computers are changing the shape of the classical commentary. With a genesis in discussion panels mounted in the UK in 1996 and the US in 1997, the volume continues recent international dialogue on the genre and future of commentaries.

Classical literature --- -Classical literature --- -Classical philology --- Criticism --- -Criticism --- -Philology, Classical --- Classical antiquities --- Greek language --- Greek literature --- Greek philology --- Humanism --- Latin language --- Latin literature --- Latin philology --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Literature --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Literature, Classical --- Literature, Ancient --- Criticism, Textual --- History and criticism --- -Theory, etc --- Technique --- Evaluation --- Classical philology. --- Theory, etc. --- Criticism, Textual. --- Classical philology --- Littérature ancienne --- Philologie ancienne --- Critique textuelle --- Philology, Classical --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Classical literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc. --- Classical literature - Criticism, Textual. --- Criticism - Greece. --- Criticism - Rome.

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Livy --- Criticism and interpretation --- Rome --- History --- Historiography --- Livy. --- Livius Patavinus, Titus --- Livius --- Tite-Live --- Livio --- Titus Livius --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Historiography. --- Livius, Titus --- Livius, T. --- Livyus, Titus --- Liviĭ, Tit --- Liwiusz, Tytus --- Livio, Tito --- ליוויוס, טיטוס --- Livy - Criticism and interpretation --- Rome - History - Kings, 753-510 B.C. - Historiography --- Rome - History - Republic, 510-30 B.C. - Historiography