Ruth Macrides is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies in the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham, UK

Contents: Foreword; Editor's preface; Section I Aesthetics: The aesthetics of history from Theophanes to Eustathios, Stratis Papaioannou. Section II Audience: Uncovering Byzantium's historiographical audience, Brian Croke; Anna Komnene and Niketas Choniates 'translated': the 14th-century Byzantine metaphrases, John Davis. Section III Narrator: Psellos and 'his emperors': fact, fiction and genre, Michael Jeffreys; 'Listen, all of you, both Franks and Romans'; the narrator in the Chronicle of Morea, Teresa Shawcross. Section IV Story-Telling: From propaganda to history to literature: the Byzantine stories of Theodosius' apple and Marcian's eagles, Roger Scott; Dream narratives in historical writing: making sense of history in Theophanes' Chronographia, George T. Calofonos; The Venice Alexander Romance: pictorial narrative and the art of telling stories, Nicolette S. Trahoulia. Section V The Classical Tradition Reinterpreted: A historian and his tragic hero; a literary reading of Theophylact Simokatta's Ecumenical History, Stephanos Efthymiadis; Envy and nemesis in the Vita Basilii and Leo the Deacon: literary mimesis or something more?, Martin Hinterberger. Section VI Sources Reconfigured: The story of the patriarch Constantine II of Constantinople in Theophanes and George the Monk: transformations of a narrative, Dmitry Afinogenov; Engaging the Byzantine past: strategies of visualizing history in Sicily and Bulgaria, Elena N. Boeck; The Synopsis Chronike and hagiography: the presentation of Constantine the Great, Konstantinos Zafeiris. Section VII Structure and Themes: Procopius' Persian War: a thematic and literary analysis, Anthony Kaldellis; La chronique de Malalas entre littérature et philosophie, Paolo Odorico; Rhetoric and history: the case of Niketas Choniates, Athanasios Angelou; Indexes.