On Not Forgetting the 'Literatur' in 'Literatur Und Religion': Representing the Mythic and the Divine in Roman Historiography

Abstract

Against recent attempts to argue that generic distinctions between history and other forms are not particularly relevant to analysis of how the divine is represented, this paper argues that generic distinctions are important from Herodotus on. History has its own distinctive discursive practices, however inventively historians work on the margins with other genres such as epic and tragedy.