Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Arnaldo Momigliano: The Historian of History ix
4. Foreword xvii
5. List of Abbreviations xviii
6. 1. A Piedmontese View of the History of Ideas 1
7. 2. The Fault of the Greeks 9
8. 3. Eastern Elements in Post-Exilic Jewish, and Greek, Historiography 25
9. 4. Athens in the Third Century B.C. and the Discovery of Rome in the Histories of Timaeus of Tauromenium 37
10. 5. The Historian’s Skin 67
11. 6. Polybius’ Reappearance in Western Europe 79
12. 7. Did Fabius Pictor Lie? 99
13. 8. Pagan and Christian Historiography in the Fourth Century A.D. 107
14. 9. The Lonely Historian Ammianus Marcellinus 127
15. 10. Popular Religious Beliefs and the Late Roman Historians 141
16. 11. Tradition and the Classical Historian 161
17. 12. Time in Ancient Historiography 13. The First Political Commentary on Tacitus 179
18. 13. The First Political Commentary on Tacitus 205
19. 14. Perizonius, Niebuhr and the Character of Early Roman Tradition 231
20. 15. Vico’s Scienza Nuova: Roman ‘Bestioni’ and Roman ‘Eroi’ 253
21. 16. Mabillon’s Italian Disciples 277
22. 17. Introduction to the Griechische Kulturgeschichte by Jacob Burckhardt 295
23. 18. J. G. Droysen between Greeks and Jews 307
24. 19. The Ancient City of Fustel de Coulanges 325
25. 20. Reconisdering B. Croce (1866–1952) 345
26. 21. Historicism Revisited 365
27. Index 375