Historiae mundi : studies in universal history /

Historiae mundi : studies in universal history /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Universal Historiography in Antiquity and Beyond Manchester, England
Other Authors: Liddel, Peter P. (Peter Philip), 1977-, Fear, A. T.
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: London : Duckworth, 2010.
Subjects:
Historiography > Rome > History.
Historiography > Greece > History.
World history > Historiography.
History, Ancient > Historiography.
History > Philosophy.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Antike.
Weltgeschichte.
Geschichtsschreibung.
Griechenland <Altertum>.
Römisches Reich.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Tim Cornell, Andrew Fear, Peter Liddel.
  • Metabole politeion as universal historiography / Peter Liddel.
  • Polybius and the first universal history / François Hartog.
  • Diodorus' reading of Polybius' universalism / Brian Sheridan.
  • Diodorus' good statesman and state revenue / Errietta Bissa.
  • Strabo and the development of ancient Greek universal historiography / Johannes Engels.
  • The glory of Italy and Rome's universal destiny in Strabo's Gegraphika / Marta García Morcillo.
  • Universal history and the early Roman historians / Tim Cornell.
  • Universal and particular in Velleius Paterculus : Carthage versus Rome / Clemence Schultze.
  • Focalised universality : contextualising the genre / Liv Mariah Yarrow.
  • Ennius as universal historian : the case of the Annales / Jackie Elliott.
  • Theology versus genre? the universalism of Christian historiography in late antiquity / Peter Van Nuffelen.
  • Orosius and escaping from the dance of doom / Andrew Fear.
  • A rose in the desert? Late antiquity and early Byzantine chronicles and the formation of Islamic universal historiography / Marco Di Branco.
  • Universal historiography and world history according to Hegel / Allegra de Laurentiis.
  • Spengler, the modern west, and Roman decline / John Farrenkopf.