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Dionysius Of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.6.2


nan Like to these in all respects are the histories of those Romans, also, who related in Greek the early achievements of the city; the oldest of these writers are Quintus Fabius and Lucius Cincius, who both flourished during the Punic wars. Each of these men related the events at which he himself had been present with great exactness, as being well acquainted with them, but touched only in a summary way upon the early events that followed the founding of the city. <


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1. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 1.24.1, 2.1 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1.24.1. The city of Epidamnus stands on the right of the entrance of the Ionic gulf. Its vicinity is inhabited by the Taulantians, an Illyrian people.
2. Cicero, De Oratore, 2.54 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2.54. Paulum se erexit et addidit maiorem historiae sonum vocis vir optimus, Crassi familiaris, Antipater; ceteri non exornatores rerum, sed tantum modo narratores fuerunt.' 'Est,' inquit Catulus 'ut dicis; sed iste ipse Caelius neque distinxit historiam varietate colorum neque verborum conlocatione et tractu orationis leni et aequabili perpolivit illud opus; sed ut homo neque doctus neque maxime aptus ad dicendum, sicut potuit, dolavit; vicit tamen, ut dicis, superiores.'
3. Polybius, Histories, 1.1.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)

4. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 1.2.2 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.2.2.  For we must look upon it as constituting the guardian of the high achievements of illustrious men, the witness which testifies to the evil deeds of the wicked, and the benefactor of the entire human race. For if it be true that the myths which are related about Hades, in spite of the fact that their subject-matter is fictitious, contribute greatly to fostering piety and justice among men, how much more must we assume that history, the prophetess of truth, she who is, as it were, the mother-city of philosophy as a whole, is still more potent to equip men's characters for noble living!
5. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.2.1, 1.3.5, 1.5.3, 1.6.3-1.6.5, 1.8.3 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.2.1.  That I have indeed made choice of a subject noble, lofty and useful to many will not, I think, require any lengthy argument, at least for those who are not utterly unacquainted with universal history. For if anyone turns his attention to the successive supremacies both of cities and of nations, as accounts of them have been handed down from times past, and then, surveying them severally and comparing them together, wishes to determine which of them obtained the widest dominion and both in peace and war performed the most brilliant achievements, he will find that the supremacy of the Romans has far surpassed all those that are recorded from earlier times, not only in the extent of its dominion and in the splendor of its achievements — which no account has as yet worthily celebrated — but also in the length of time during which it has endured down to our day. 1.3.5.  From the time that she mastered the whole of Italy she was emboldened to aspire to govern all mankind, and after driving from off the sea the Carthaginians, whose maritime strength was superior to that of all others, and subduing Macedonia, which until then was reputed to be the most powerful nation on land, she no longer had as rival any nation either barbarian or Greek; and it is now in my day already the seventh generation that she has continued to hold sway over every region of the world, and there is no nation, as I may say, that disputes her universal dominion or protests against being ruled by her. 1.5.3.  particularly when they shall have learned from my history that Rome from the very beginning, immediately after its founding, produced infinite examples of virtue in men whose superiors, whether for piety or for justice or for life-long self-control or for warlike valour, no city, either Greek or barbarian, has ever produced. This, I say, is what I hope to accomplish, if my readers will but lay aside all resentment; for some such feeling is aroused by a promise of things which run counter to received opinion or excite wonder. 1.6.3.  For these reasons, therefore, I have determined not to pass over a noble period of history which the older writers left untouched, a period, moreover, the accurate portrayal of which will lead to the following most excellent and just results: In the first place, the brave men who have fulfilled their destiny will gain immortal glory and be extolled by posterity, which things render human nature like unto the divine and prevent men's deeds from perishing together with their bodies. 1.6.4.  And again, both the present and future descendants of those godlike men will choose, not the pleasantest and easiest of lives, but rather the noblest and most ambitious, when they consider that all who are sprung from an illustrious origin ought to set a high value on themselves and indulge in no pursuit unworthy of their ancestors. 1.6.5.  And I, who have not turned aside to this work for the sake of flattery, but out of a regard for truth and justice, which ought to be the aim of every history, shall have an opportunity, in the first place, of expressing my attitude of goodwill toward all good men and toward all who take pleasure in the contemplation of great and noble deeds; and, in the second place, of making the most grateful return that I may to the city and other blessings I have enjoyed during my residence in it. 1.8.3.  As to the form I give this work, it does not resemble that which the authors who make wars alone their subject have given to their histories, nor that which others who treat of the several forms of government by themselves have adopted, nor is it like the annalistic accounts which the authors of the Atthides have published (for these are monotonous and soon grow tedious to the reader), but it is a combination of every kind, forensic, speculative and narrative, to the intent that it may afford satisfaction both to those who occupy themselves with political debates and to those who are devoted to philosophical speculations, as well as to any who may desire mere undisturbed entertainment in their reading of history.
6. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, The Arrangement of Words, 4.10 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

7. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, The Arrangement of Words, 4.10 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

8. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Letter To Pompeius Geminus, 3.12 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

9. Livy, History, praef. 10 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

10. Sallust, Iugurtha, 4.5-4.6 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

11. Herodian, History of The Empire After Marcus, 1.2.5, 2.15.6-2.15.7 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

12. Lucian, How To Write History, 9 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

13. Libanius, Orations, 11 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)



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aeneas Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 40
alexander the great Bickerman and Tropper, Studies in Jewish and Christian History (2007) 530
apollonius of tyana Bickerman and Tropper, Studies in Jewish and Christian History (2007) 530
aramaic vs. hebrew Bickerman and Tropper, Studies in Jewish and Christian History (2007) 530
arrian Chrysanthou, Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire (2022) 10
augustus Bickerman and Tropper, Studies in Jewish and Christian History (2007) 530
biography Chrysanthou, Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire (2022) 10
chronology (in narrative) Chrysanthou, Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire (2022) 10
croesus Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 96
dionysius of halicarnassus, explicit assessment of historiographers by Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 96
dionysius of halicarnassus, globalism and unity, herodotuss role in ideas of Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 96, 97
dionysius of halicarnassus, roman antiquities Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 96, 97
dionysius of halicarnassus, rome and roman history Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 96, 97
dionysius of halicarnassus Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 122; Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 96, 97; Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 40
dreams Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 122
education Chrysanthou, Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire (2022) 10
egeria Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 122
empire Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 96, 97
encomium Chrysanthou, Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire (2022) 10
ennius Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 122
florus Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 40
fragment Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 40
glaser, konrad Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 122
herodotus and the histories, globalism of Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 96, 97
historiography Chrysanthou, Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire (2022) 10; Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 122
l. cincius alimentus Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 40
l. coelius antipater Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 40
lamia Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 122
libanius Bickerman and Tropper, Studies in Jewish and Christian History (2007) 530
linguistic purism Bickerman and Tropper, Studies in Jewish and Christian History (2007) 530
m. tullius cicero Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 40
marcus aurelius Chrysanthou, Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire (2022) 10
moral(isation) Chrysanthou, Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire (2022) 10
numa Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 122
order, narrative Chrysanthou, Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire (2022) 10
pharisees Bickerman and Tropper, Studies in Jewish and Christian History (2007) 530
pleasure (in historiography) Chrysanthou, Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire (2022) 10
porphyrius Bickerman and Tropper, Studies in Jewish and Christian History (2007) 530
ptolemies Bickerman and Tropper, Studies in Jewish and Christian History (2007) 530
punic wars Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 40
q. fabius pictor Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 40
r. judah i Bickerman and Tropper, Studies in Jewish and Christian History (2007) 530
readers, active engagement/response Chrysanthou, Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire (2022) 10
readers, pleasure Chrysanthou, Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire (2022) 10
regal period Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 122
religion Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 122
republic, the roman, memory and trauma Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 40
rome, as empire Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 96, 97
rome, conquest obliterated memory of past Bickerman and Tropper, Studies in Jewish and Christian History (2007) 530
rome, eternality of empire Bickerman and Tropper, Studies in Jewish and Christian History (2007) 530
romulus Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 40
satire Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 122
seleucid monarchy Bickerman and Tropper, Studies in Jewish and Christian History (2007) 530
septimius severus Chrysanthou, Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire (2022) 10
shechemites' Bickerman and Tropper, Studies in Jewish and Christian History (2007) 530
skutsch, otto Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 122
superstition Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 122
tacitus Chrysanthou, Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire (2022) 10
thucydides, as stylistic model or counter-model Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 96
tyranny/tyrants Chrysanthou, Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire (2022) 10
xerxes Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 97