A Piedmontese view of the history of ideas -- The fault of the Greeks -- Eastern elements in post-exilic Jewish, and Greek, historiography -- Athens in the third century B.C. and the discovery of Rome in the histories of Timaeus of Tauromenium -- The historian's skin -- Polybius' reappearance in western Europe -- Did Fabius Pictor lie? -- Pagan and Christian historiography in the fourth century A.D -- The lonely historian Ammianus Marcellinus -- Popular religious beliefs and the late Roman historians -- Tradition and the classical historian -- Time in ancient historiography -- The first political commentary on Tacitus -- Perizonius, Niebuhr and the character of early Roman tradition -- Vico's scienza nuova: Roman "bestioni" and Roman "eroi" -- Mabillon's Italian disciplies -- Introduction to the Griechische Kulturgeschichte by Jacob Burckhardt -- J. G. Droysen between Greeks and Jews -- The ancient city of Fustel de Coulanges -- Reconsidering B. Croce (1866-1952) -- Historicism revisited.
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