Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Digressive Anecdotes, Narrative Excursus and Historical Thought in Herodotus 11
6. “I Have Written about It and Have Made This Digression from My Account …”: Thucydides’ Digressions and Their Relation to the Main Work 43
7. Emulating Herodotus: Digressions in the First Generation of Alexander Historians 73
8. Polybius’ Histories: No Room for Digressions? 93
9. Why Charondas Taught the Thurians How to Read and Write, or: Digression and Narration in Diodorus’ Bibliotheke 111
10. Going in Circles: Digressive Behavior in Caesar, BC 2.23–44 131
11. Expansion, Heterogeneity and Method in Sallust’s Digressions 151
12. Inglorious History and the Tacitean Digression 183
13. Digressions as Meta-Literary Markers and Narrative Milestones in Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander 223
14. Digressions and the Fall of the Republic in Cassius Dio 241
15. Digressions in Herodian’s History of the Empire 273
16. Ammianus’ Digressions and their Narrative Impact 309
17. List of Contributors 329
18. Index Locorum 333
19. Index Nominum et Rerum 353