Ancient History Bulletin Review Sources et modèles des historiens anciens. (original) (raw)
2022, AHBOnlineReviews2022.07.DiepenbroekOnDevillerBattistinSebastian
In 2018 Devillier and Battistin Sebastiani published Sources et modèles des historiens anciens. The work was the result of a broad international collaboration which brought together 28 chapters by specialists in their field. Its chief aim was to provide a contribution to the studies on the writing of history in Greco-Roman antiquity from Herodotus to the Byzantine Empire. Through surveys devoted to the main historians and historical texts of this period, these different texts give rise to re-readings that take into account the historiographical projects of each. Only three years later in 2021, a second volume (Sources et modèles des historiens anciens 2) followed, containing thirty five chapters, which continues where the first volume left off. Both volumes, which are multilingual (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) are excellent additions to the field of writing history in antiquity, because of the great variety of subjects discussed (from Herodotus to the Byzantine empire and Greek as well as Roman topics).
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