希腊的“地方史”，更好地称为城邦史和岛屿史，通常被视为主流“伟大的”希腊史学的贫富关系，但从古典晚期到希腊化时期，它们显然很受欢迎，数量众多。费利克斯·雅各比（Felix Jacoby）收集了大量的碎片和睾丸化石，并在最近的发现和铭文中进行了补充。然而，雅典的历史却得到了相当多的关注，但其他城市却没有这样做：这是第一部把城邦和岛屿历史作为一个整体来考虑的书，是一种重要的文化和政治现象。它挑战了“古希腊主义”的共同标签，并认为他们在帮助创建“想象社区”方面的作用必须部分视为对变化和扩张的希腊世界中脆弱和不断变化的地位的回应。重要主题与特定地点的案例研究一起讨论（包括萨莫斯、米勒图斯、埃里瑟莱、梅加拉、雅典）。
Polis Histories, Collective Memories and the Greek World
Greek ‘local histories’, better called polis and island histories, have usually been seen as the poor relation of mainstream ‘great’ Greek historiography, and yet they were demonstrably popular and extremely numerous from the late Classical period into the Hellenistic. The extensive fragments and testimonia were collected by Felix Jacoby and have been supplemented since with recent finds and inscriptions. Yet while the Athenian histories have received considerable attention, those of other cities have not: this is the first book to consider the polis and island histories as a whole, and as an important cultural and political phenomenon. It challenges the common label of ‘antiquarianism’ and argues that their role in helping to create ‘imagined communities’ must be seen partly as a response to fragile and changing status in a changing and expanding Greek world. Important themes are discussed alongside case studies of particular places (including Samos, Miletus, Erythrai, Megara, Athens).
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