The two founding works of the Western historiographical tradition Herodotus' Histories and
Thucydides' History feature among many other things mentions and quotations of inscriptions
(that is texts written on durable materials such as stone).This book explores the epigraphic
dimension of Herodotus' Histories and Thucydides' History (including potential allusions to
inscriptions in general possible instances of a tacit use of epigraphically recorded
information and explicit references to specific inscriptions) and offers a number of case
studies aimed at elucidating the subtle uses to which specific embedded inscriptions are put in
the works of Herodotus and Thucydides. Special attention is paid to the ways in which these
inscriptions contribute to the characterisation of historical actors and to the self-fashioning
of the Herodotean and Thucydidean narrator.The book may appeal to literary classicists ancient
historians epigraphists and other readers with an interest in ancient historiography and or
epigraphic culture.
