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This chapter considers the philosophical and rhetorical aspects of fourth‐century historical writers. Rhetoric shaped the style and form of historiography, but the content followed its own paths of refinement. Moralizing and rhetoric were present since the advent of historical writing, indeed intrinsic to Greek literature since Homer. What makes this period different are the shifting forms of moral...
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