Eadie John W., Ober Josiah (eds.) The Craft of the Ancient Historian: Essays in Honor of Chester G. Starr

University Press of America, 1985. — 474 p. — ISBN 0819147907, 9780819147905.It is an honour and a pleasure for me to have been asked to write an introduction to this volume that pays a well-deserved tribute to Chester G. Starr. If any scholar in our field were asked who is the most distinguished ancient historian in our hemisphere, there would be little doubt of the answer. If the respondent himself lived in this hemisphere, he might (scholars being rather like ancient Greek aristocrats) put himself first, in some corner of the field, but he would put Professor Starr second. Over the whole range of Greek and Roman history, however, there could be no hesitation as to who deserves the prize. This was so clear even more than ten years ago that, when a group of ancient historians from the United States and Canada, at Harvard in May 1974, decided to formalize what had up to that point been an informal annual meeting into the Association of Ancient Historians, my nomination of Chester G. Starr to be the first President of the Association was accepted with unanimous enthusiasm.Abbreviations
Tabula Gratulatoria
E. Badian / Introduction: Chester G. Starr As A Historian
Meyer Reinhold / Human Nature As Cause In Ancient Historiography
Walter Beringer / Freedom, Family, And Citizenship In Early Greece
Frank Frost / Toward A History Of Peisistratid Athens
David Graf / Greek Tyrants And Achaemenid Politics
Robert Develin / Herodotus And The Alkmaeonids
Thomas Kelly / The Spartan Scytale
Josiah Ober / Thucydides, Pericles, And The Strategy Of Defense
Antony Andrewes / Diodoros And Ephoros: One Source Of Misunderstanding
Sally Humphreys / Lycurgus Of Butadae: An Athenian Aristocrat
Erich Gruen / The Coronation Of The Diadochoi
Edouard Will / Pour Une "Anthropologie Coloniale" Du Monde Hellénistique
Richard Mitchell / The Historical And Historiographical Prominence Of The Pyrrhic War
Susan Treggiari / Iam Proterva Fronte: Matrimonial Advances By Roman Women
Arther Ferrill / The Senatorial Aristocracy In The Early Roman Empire
Willem Den Boer / Plutarch's Philosophic Basis For Personal Involvement
John Scarborough / Criton, Physician To Trajan: Historian And Pharmacist
John Eadie / Artifacts Of Annexation: Trajan's Grand Strategy And Arabia
Gary Crump / Coinage And Imperial Thought
Arnaldo Momigliano / The Life Of St. Macrina By Gregory Of Nyssa