Barnes, Harry Elmer. A History of Historical Writing, second revised edition. New York: Dover Publications, 1962, 450 p.

Survey of the history of historical writing from the earliest times to the modern era. This work was first published in 1937.

Brown, Truesdell S. The Greek Historians. Lexington, Mass. and Toronto: D. C. Heath and Co., 1973, 208 p.

Overview that is "an attempt to indicate some of the important changes that took place in the writing of history from the old logographers down to the period of Roman supremacy."

Bury, J. Β. The Ancient Greek Historians. 1908. Reprint. New York: Dover Publications, 1958, 281 p.

Historical survey of Greek historiography (up to the first century B.C.) that traces "the principles, governing ideas, and the methods of the Greek historians, and [relates] them to the general movements of Greek thought and Greek history."

Butterfield, Herbert. "The Rise of Classical Historiography." In The Origins of History, edited by Adam Watson, pp, 118-37. New York: Basic Books, 1981.

Overview of the beginnings of Greek historical writing, focusing on attitudes toward the passage of time.

Gomme, Arnold Wycombe. More Essays in Greek History and Literature. Edited by David A. Campbell. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1962, 229 p.

Examines various aspects of Greek historiography, asserting that, in ancient Greece, "freedom, never, probably, precisely formulated nor philosophically defended, is the individual freedom of the citizen in relation to the state."

Grant, Michael. "Introduction." In The Ancient Historians, pp. 3-20. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970.

Excellent introductory overview.

Griffith, G. T. "The Greek Historians." In Fifty Years (and Twelve) of Classical Scholarship, edited by Maurice Platnauer, pp. 182-241. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1968.

Concise summary of key studies and trends in Greek historiography up to 1968.

Levick, Barbara. The Ancient Historian and His Materials: Essays in Honour of C. E. Stevens on His Seventieth Birthday. Westmead, England: Gregg International, 1975, 251 p.

Collection of essays on various topics related to ancient history, touching on Aristophanes, Aristotle, Xenophon, Octavian, Tacitus, and others.

Mahaffy, J. P. A History of Classical Literature, Vol. II. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880, 458 p.

Treats historical writing in the context of early Greek prose, with sections on Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and others.

Momigliano, Arnaldo. Studies in Historiography. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966, 263 p.

Essays on scholars, trends, and influences on ancient history and historians by one of the foremost scholars in the field.

—— Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1977, 387 p.

Wide-ranging essays on topics in ancient history.

Shotwell, James T. "Greek History." In An Introduction to the History of History, pp. 128-210. New York: Columbia University Press, 1922.

Overview of Greek historical writing from Homer to Polybius and some later historians.