The work that provides detailed guidance on the theoretical utterances of Greek historians is J. Marincola, Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography (Cambridge: 1997). For Greek historiography generally, see S. Hornblower (ed.), Greek
Historiography (Oxford: 1994). A helpful analysis of Herodotus’ historical rhetoric is provided by D. Lateiner, The Historical Method of Herodotus (Toronto: 1989). On Herodotus as a figure of the fifth-century ‘enlightenment’, to be seen alongside medical writers, political thinkers, and teachers of rhetoric, see R. Thomas, Herodotus in Context: Ethnography, Science and the Art of Persuasion (Cambridge: 2000) and K. Raaflaub, ‘Philosophy, Science, Politics: Herodotus and the Intellectual Trends of his Time’, in E. J. Bakker, I. J.F. de Jong and H. van Wees (eds.), Brill’s Companion to Herodotus (Leiden: 2002), pp. 149-186; the latter collection also includes essays on Herodotus’ relationship to Homer and the oral tradition, and on his construction of the authorial persona of the historian. C. Dewald and J. Marincola (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus (Cambridge: 2006), had not appeared at time of writing. A controversial but powerful interpretation of Isocrates’ textual rhetoric is provided by Y. L. Too, The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates. Text, Power, Pedagogy (Cambridge: 1999); for other perspectives, see the essays in T. Poulakos and D. Depew (eds.), Isocrates and Civic Education (Austin: 2004). On the role of rhetoric and the spread of ideals of Hellenic culture, particular under Rome, see S. Swain, Hellenism and Empire (Oxford: 1996), S. Goldhill, Being Greek under Rome. Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and the Development of Empire (Cambridge: 2001) and T. Whitmarsh, Greek Literature and the Roman Empire (Oxford: 2004). On Polybius, we suggest A. M. Eckstein, Moral Vision in the ‘Histories’ of Polybius (Berkeley: 1999) and F. W. Walbank, Polybius, Rome, and the Hellenistic World (Cambridge: 2002). On Dionysius of Halicarnassus, see E. Gabba, Dionysius and the History of Archaic Rome, Sather Classical Lectures 56 (Berkeley: 1991).
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