List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction, Mary C. English and Lee M. Fratantuono; Part I: Herodotean narratives and cross-cultural comparisons; Chapter 1: Different ways of saying historia in the prose of Herodotus and Thucydides, Gregory Nagy; Chapter 2: Tyrants' spectacles in Herodotus, Deborah Boedeker; Chapter 3: Thinking with Sima Qian's Shiji about Herodotus' fragmented narrative of the story of Miltiades, Thomas R. Martin; Chapter 4: Settling family feuds: Lysias 1 and Herodotus' Lydians, Nina C. Coppolino; Chapter 5: East and West in the Histories of Herodotus and Tacitus, Timothy Joseph; Part II. Historia and the ancient world; Chapter 6: Thucydides' use of Homer in his Archaeology, Mary Ebbott; Chapter 7: Models of gift-exchange and practices of hostage-giving and hostage-taking in classical Persian poetry, Olga M. Davidson; Chapter 8: Michael Ventris, Sterling Dow, and the initial reception of the decipherment of Linear B, Stephen Tracy; Chapter 9: Citizen scholarship in the Homer Multitext project, Neel Smith; Part III: The development and reception of historical exempla; Chapter 10: Othryadas: The development of a historical and literary exemplum, Alissa Vaillancourt and Andrew G. Scott; Chapter 11: No peeking! Athena and Alcibiades, Joseph Falaky Nagy; Chapter 12: A furious fury: Virgil's Camilla, Livy's Camillus, and the reconciliations of Juno, Lee M. Fratantuono; Chapter 13: Ovid's autobiography (Tr. 4.10): Poetic identity and immortality in the poetry of exile, Matthew M. McGowan; Chapter 14: Billy Collins as a modern-day Ovid: An Ovidian reading of Collins' Ballistics, Jill A. Coyle; Part IV: Fury, honor, and historia: Conflict and struggle in the Greek and Roman imaginations; Chapter 15: Sound effects: Aural aspects of Euripides' Bacchae, Katie Lamberto; Chapter 16: Evander's love of gore and bloodshed in Aeneid 8, James J. O'Hara; Chapter 17: A disquiet follows my soul: Civil war in Livy Book 1, Mark J. B. Wright; Chapter 18: Saint Pilate and the conversion of Tiberius, Paul F. Burke; Chapter 19: Julius Caesar in the 1960s: Jerome Kilty's stage adaptation of Thornton Wilder's The Ides of March, Mary C. English; Chapter 20: Edward Robinson's plaster casts and the battle for the Museum of Fine Arts, Ellen E. Perry; Index