Studies in Historia

L’Historia comme genre littéraire dans l Lire les présocratiques (eds. L. Brisson, Arnaud Macé and Anne-Laure Therme), Paris: PUF, 2012

The following essay on historia is the original English version of my chapter “L’Historia comme genre littéraire dans la pensée grecque archaïque,” in Lire les présocratiques (eds. L. Brisson, Arnaud Macé and Anne-Laure Therme), Paris: PUF, 2012, 61- 78. This is also reflected in the bibliography. In this chapter, I begin with the origin and meaning of the term historiê, examine some of the possible factors behind it, and then turn to the most important genres that fall under its scope, beginning with the peri phuseôs tradition, and then turning to “history” as a narrative account of human actions, and finally to medicine.

Hose/A Companion to Greek Literature, 2015

Written for a Historiography class, the approaches of Thucydides, Herodotus, and Polybius are examined as to how they approached the task of recording and writing history.

History and Drama: The Pan-European Tradition, 2019

The Heythrop Journal, 2015

Título: Enredando narrativas: questões clássicas e potenciais à escrita histórica Ementa: Reflexões em torno da questão narrativa em história, com ênfase nos topoi clássicos da ficcionalidade, imaginação e experiência e nos desafios postos pelas teorias pós-narrativistas e pelas linguagens digitais para a escrita histórica. Conteúdo programático:

The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (with K. Scarlett Kingsley and Tim Rood), Cambridge University Press , 2022

In this volume an international group of scholars revisits the themes of John Marincola's ground-breaking Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography. The nineteen chapters offer a series of case studies that explore how ancient historians' approaches to their projects were informed both by the pull of tradition and by the ambition to innovate. The key themes explored are the relation of historiography to myth and poetry; the narrative authority exemplified by Herodotus, the 'father' of history; the use of 'fictional' literary devices in historiography; narratorial self-presentation; and self-conscious attempts to shape the historiographical tradition in new and bold ways. The volume presents a holistic vision of the development of Greco-Roman historiography and the historian's dynamic position within this practice.