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Although digressive discourse constitutes a key feature of Greco-Roman historiography, we possess no collective volume on the matter. The chapters of this book fill this gap by offering an overall view of the use of digressions in Greco-Roman historical prose from its beginning in the 5th century BCE up to the Imperial Era. Ancient historiographers traditionally took as digressions the cases in which they interrupted their focused chronological narration. Such cases include lengthy geographical descriptions, prolepses or analepses, and authorial comments. Ancient historiographers rarely deign to interrupt their narration's main storyline with excursuses which are flagrantly disconnected from it. Instead, they often "coat" their digressions with distinctive patterns of their own thinking, thus rendering them ideological and thematic milestones within an entire work. Furthermore, digressions may constitute pivotal points in the very structure of ancient historical narratives, while ancient historians also use excursuses to establish a dialogue with their readers and to activate them in various ways. All these aspects of digressions in Greco-Roman historiography are studied in detail in the chapters of this volume.

Greco-Roman historiography. --- classical literature. --- digressions. --- narrative analysis.

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Navibus velivolis magnum mare saepe cucurri' -- "auf segelbeflügelten Schiffen habe ich oft das gro�e Meer befahren"-- so lautet eine kaiserzeitliche Inschrift aus Brundisium. In der Antike war die Seefahrt eine vergleichsweise bequeme, schnelle und preiswerte Art der Fortbewegung, die sich insbesondere dazu eignete, weite geographische Räume zu erschlie�en. Dementsprechend reich ist die Überlieferung an antiken Texten, die sich in den unterschiedlichsten Zusammenhängen mit Reisen zu Schiff befassen. Der Sammelband widmet sich diesen Texten in althistorischen und altphilologischen Herangehensweisen und stellt dabei das Erlebnis der Seereise als kulturelles Phänomen in den Mittelpunkt. Der zeitliche Bogen reicht von Texten aus dem 1. Jahrhundert v.Chr. bis hin zu Darstellungen aus der späten Kaiserzeit. Methodisch wird eine doppelte Zielsetzung verfolgt: Zum einen analysieren die 18 Beiträge die Erlebnishorizonte der antiken Reisenden, zum anderen untersuchen sie die Art und Weise der literarischen Darstellung von Seereisen und fragen nach der Funktion der textuellen Gestaltung.

Hellenism --- Hellenism. --- Navigation --- Navigation. --- Ocean travel in literature --- Ocean travel in literature. --- Ocean travel --- Ocean travel. --- Sailboats --- Sailboats. --- Sea in literature --- Sea in literature. --- Travel, Ancient --- Travel, Ancient. --- History --- History --- History --- 323 B.C.-284 A.D. --- Greece --- Greece --- Greece. --- Mediterranean Region --- Mediterranean Region. --- Rome (Empire). --- Rome --- History --- History --- History

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Although the relationship of Greco-Roman historians with their readerships has attracted much scholarly attention, classicists principally focus on individual historians, while there has been no collective work on the matter. The editors of this volume aspire to fill this gap and gather papers which offer an overall view of the Greco-Roman readership and of its interaction with ancient historians. The authors of this book endeavor to define the physiognomy of the audience of history in the Roman Era both by exploring the narrative arrangement of ancient historical prose and by using sources in which Greco-Roman intellectuals address the issue of the readership of history. Ancient historians shaped their accounts taking into consideration their readers' tastes, and this is evident on many different levels, such as the way a historian fashions his authorial image, addresses his readers, or uses certain compositional strategies to elicit the readers' affective and cognitive responses to his messages. The papers of this volume analyze these narrative aspects and contextualize them within their socio-political environment in order to reveal the ways ancient readerships interacted with and affected Greco-Roman historical prose.

Greco-Roman historiography, history of reading, reader-response criticism.

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A significant trend in the study of Greek and Roman historiographers is to accept that their works are to a degree both science and fiction. As scholarly interest broadens, in addition to evaluating ancient historians on the basis of the reliability of the information they record, and verifying the narratives against various elements of the material (inscriptions, excavations, numismatics), new studies are beginning to elaborate on the stylistic and narrative qualities of the texts themselves. The present volume offers a fine collection of essays that on the whole emphasize the literary dimensions of the ancient Greek and Roman historians. Offering narratological, linguistic, and theoretical approaches to historiography, the contributors of the book elaborate on the intersections between historiography and other literary genres, the literary manipulation of military events and the criteria of selectivity, the reception of ancient historical texts in other genres, time and space in historical narrative, and plenty of other relevant topics. The shared belief of the authors is that there is a close interrelation between the literary features and the scientific value of ancient Greek and Roman historiography.

Historiography --- Historiographie --- Littérature antique --- History. --- Littérature antique. --- Greece --- Rome --- Greece. --- Rome (Empire) --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic --- Romi (Empire) --- Italy --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret͡sii͡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ελλάς --- Ελλάδα --- Греция --- اليونان --- يونان --- 希腊 --- Classical historiography. --- ancient history. --- linguistics. --- narratology. --- linguistics --- narratology