This collection of Oxford Readings will furnish a valuable resource for both students and specialists of classical historiography, especially as it makes available several foreign language articles in English for the first time that have not received the attention they clearly deserve.

• Introduction ; I. CONSTRUCTING THE PAST: MYTH, MEMORY AND HISTORY ; 1. Thucydides is Not a Colleague ; 2. Myth, History, Politics - Ancient and Modern ; 3. Genealogy and the Genealogists ; 4. Some Aspects of Source Theory in Greek Historiography ; 5. The Tradition about Early Rome and Oral History ; 6. Memoria and Historiography at Rome ; 7. Etruscan Historiography ; II. RHETORIC, TRUTH, AND FALSEHOOD ; 8. Cicero and Historiography ; 9. Cicero and the Writing of History ; 10. Ancient Views on the Causes of Bias in Historical Writing ; 11. Lying Historians: Seven Types of Mendacity ; 12. True History and False History in Classical Antiquity ; III. HISTORY AND POETRY ; 13. The Historical 'Cycle' ; 14. History and Tragedy ; 15. Poetry and Historiography

This collection of Oxford Readings will furnish a valuable resource for both students and specialists of classical historiography, especially as it makes available several foreign language articles in English for the first time that have not received the attention they clearly deserve.

• Introduction ; I. CONSTRUCTING THE PAST: MYTH, MEMORY AND HISTORY ; 1. Thucydides is Not a Colleague ; 2. Myth, History, Politics - Ancient and Modern ; 3. Genealogy and the Genealogists ; 4. Some Aspects of Source Theory in Greek Historiography ; 5. The Tradition about Early Rome and Oral History ; 6. Memoria and Historiography at Rome ; 7. Etruscan Historiography ; II. RHETORIC, TRUTH, AND FALSEHOOD ; 8. Cicero and Historiography ; 9. Cicero and the Writing of History ; 10. Ancient Views on the Causes of Bias in Historical Writing ; 11. Lying Historians: Seven Types of Mendacity ; 12. True History and False History in Classical Antiquity ; III. HISTORY AND POETRY ; 13. The Historical 'Cycle' ; 14. History and Tragedy ; 15. Poetry and Historiography

This collection of Oxford Readings will furnish a valuable resource for both students and specialists of classical historiography, especially as it makes available several foreign language articles in English for the first time that have not received the attention they clearly deserve.

• Introduction ; I. CONSTRUCTING THE PAST: MYTH, MEMORY AND HISTORY ; 1. Thucydides is Not a Colleague ; 2. Myth, History, Politics - Ancient and Modern ; 3. Genealogy and the Genealogists ; 4. Some Aspects of Source Theory in Greek Historiography ; 5. The Tradition about Early Rome and Oral History ; 6. Memoria and Historiography at Rome ; 7. Etruscan Historiography ; II. RHETORIC, TRUTH, AND FALSEHOOD ; 8. Cicero and Historiography ; 9. Cicero and the Writing of History ; 10. Ancient Views on the Causes of Bias in Historical Writing ; 11. Lying Historians: Seven Types of Mendacity ; 12. True History and False History in Classical Antiquity ; III. HISTORY AND POETRY ; 13. The Historical 'Cycle' ; 14. History and Tragedy ; 15. Poetry and Historiography