The Craft of the Ancient Historian: Essays in Honor of Chester G. Starr

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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. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS v ABBREVIATIONS vi TABULA GRATULATORIA vii E. BADIAN / Introduction: Chester G. Starr as a Historian 1 MEYER REINHOLD / Human Nature as Cause in Ancient Historiography 21 WALTER BERINGER / Freedom, Family, and Citizenship in Early Greece 41 FRANK FROST / Toward a History of Peisistratid Athens 57 DAVID GRAF / Greek Tyrants and Achaemenid Politics 79 ROBERT DEVELIN / Herodotus and the Alkmaeonids 125 THOMAS KELLY / The Spartan Scytale 141 JOSIAH OBER / Thucydides, Pericles, and the Strategy of Defense 171 ANTONY ANDREWES / Diodoros and Ephoros: One Source of Misunderstanding 189 SALLY HUMPHREYS / Lycurgus of Butadae: An Athenian Aristocrat 199 ERICH GRUEN / The Coronation of the Diadochoi 253 EDOUARD WILL / Pour une "anthropologie coloniale" du monde hellénistique 273 RICHARD MITCHELL / The Historical and Historiographical Prominence of the Pyrrhic War 303 SUSAN TREGGIARI / Iam Proterva Fronte: Matrimonial Advances by Roman Women 331 ARTHER FERRILL / The Senatorial Aristocracy in the Early Roman Empire 353 WILLEM DEN BOER / Plutarch's Philosophic Basis for Personal Involvement 373 JOHN SCARBOROUGH / Criton, Physician to Trajan: Historian and Pharmacist 387 JOHN EADIE / Artifacts of Annexation: Trajan's Grand Strategy and Arabia 407 GARY CRUMP / Coinage and Imperial Thought 425 ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO / The Life of St. Macrina by Gregory of Nyssa 443