Abstract
I shall begin with a definition. I am dealing with ‘secular historians,’ and thus I am excluding ecclesiastical history, and chronography. The second of these two genres, chronography, continued a tradition which goes back as far as Thucydides' contemporary, Hellanicus, but under a Christian empire it acquired a Christian bias and dropped any pretence of literary style. ‘Ecclesiastical history,’ which, as far as we know, was invented by Eusebius of Caesarea, and displays a somewhat unclassical passion for documentation, dealt with the church and history as it affected the church. Its presuppositions about historical causation were Christian. The secular historians, on the other hand, continued the classical traditions of historiography begun by Herodotus and Thucydides, and their subject matter was war and politics, and the cross between the two, which was diplomacy.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Philosophy,Religious studies,Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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1. We should note that, although Procopius drew his literary models from the classical past, he was well aware of the dangers of excessive adulation. In Wars 8.6.9 he protests against the tendency to treat all ancient sources as sound, while at the same time putting slight value on contemporary evidence.
2. Priscus of Panium, Fragment I b
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