This study employs a comparative approach using Greek models of historical enquiry, especially those of Herodotus, to illustrate how Romans prior to the Punic Wars, and indeed as early as the fifth and fourth centuriesBC, might have developed their own historical consciousness and historical traditions concerning their early past in much the same way as we know the Greeks had done by the fifth centuryBC. What follows is not at all new. Many have identified Roman historical and historiographical roots, connections, and even parallels with Greek history and historians.1What follows reiterates those connections, explicitly by assessing how Herodotus presented his inquiries to his Greek audience, laying the foundations for the discipline ofhistoria, and then by examining specifically the story of the Fabii at the Cremera in Livy, Dionysius and Diodorus. Through this one historical example, I hope to show that the roots of genuine historical thought can be found in the sources of our sources for early Roman traditions. Despite the fact that these traditions appear in works written much later than the events they describe, the nature of the stories preserved in our extant accounts suggests similar historiographical roots and interest as those preserved by Herodotus for the Greeks in the stories he told in hisHistories.

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希腊历史对早期罗马历史的影响

本研究采用比较方法，使用希腊历史探究模式，尤其是希罗多德的模式，来说明罗马人在布匿战争之前，甚至早在五、四世纪公元前，可能已经发展了他们自己的历史意识和关于他们早期过去的历史传统，就像我们知道的希腊人在五世纪所做的那样公元前. 接下来的内容一点也不新鲜。许多人已经确定了罗马历史和史学的根源、联系，甚至与希腊历史和历史学家的相似之处。1以下内容重申了这些联系，明确评估了希罗多德如何向希腊听众提出他的调查，奠定了基础学科的基础。历史，然后通过专门研究 Livy、Dionysius 和 Diodorus 的 Cremera 的 Fabii 的故事。通过这一历史例子，我希望表明，真正的历史思想的根源可以在我们早期罗马传统的资料来源中找到。尽管这些传统出现在比它们描述的事件晚得多的作品中，但我们现存的叙述中保存的故事的性质表明，与希罗多德为希腊人所保存的历史渊源和兴趣相似，他在他的历史.