The Return of Histos!

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The Classics Departments at Florida State University (US) and Newcastle
University (UK) announce the revival of Histos, the ancient historiography
Internet journal run from Durham University (UK) between 1996 and 2000.

Our brief remains the same: rapid publication of high-quality articles and
notes on all aspects of ancient historiography and biography (including the
Gospels and later Christian material) and of in-depth reviews of recent
publications in the field. It is not our intention to publish material which
is per se historical, unless it illuminates the qualities of ancient
historians or biographers (this will be a matter of balance and judgment).
All submissions will be anonymously refereed by experts. We aim for a turn-
around time of a maximum of three months. We will publish in English,
French, German and Italian.

New contributions will be posted at the website as soon as they have been
accepted and will then be collated into volumes. In order to maintain
continuity, we will resume publication at volume 5 for the year 2011. The
earlier material (volumes 1–4), currently located at the Durham website,
will be moved to the new site, and will be re-published in PDF form.

Histos will be available both online, in a full open-access version (in PDF
form), and in a printed version. All the papers accepted for publication
will appear in both formats. Readers’ responses are welcomed. Online
versions will be open to named readers’ comments and may themselves generate
further articles and notes.

Information about our web site will be available shortly. In the meantime,
enquiries may be made to the Editors (jmarinco AT fsu.edu;
j.l.moles AT ncl.ac.uk).

Submissions may already be made to histos@ncl.ac.uk. For conventions to be
observed in submissions, please see the end of this message.

Joint Editors: John Marincola and John Moles

Editorial Board (in addition to the Editors, Secretary to the Board and
Reviews Editor):
Jean-Louis Ferrary, École pratique des hautes études, Paris
Dominique Lenfant, Université de Strasbourg
Trevor Luke, Florida State University
Roberto Nicolai, Università di Roma, ‘La Sapienza’
Christopher Pelling, Christ Church, Oxford
Todd Penner, Austin College, Texas
Guido Schepens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
James Sickinger, Florida State University
Rowland Smith, University of Newcastle
Uwe Walter, Universität Bielefeld
Jakob Wisse, University of Newcastle
A. J. Woodman, University of Virginia

Secretary to the Board: Federico Santangelo, University of Newcastle
Reviews Editor: Clemence Schultze, University of Durham

Guidelines for submissions to Histos

Word limit
For the on-line version, there is, in theory, no word limit, although the
Editors retain the right to prune articles that are especially verbose. For
the printed version, articles should not exceed 16,000 words. The necessary
abridgements for the latter will be agreed upon by the contributor(s) and
the editors, while a longer version may still be published online.

Greek
If the article contains Greek, please use a Unicode font; the font itself is
immaterial, provided that it is Unicode.

Citations
1. Greek authors should be cited as in LSJ, Latin authors as in OLD or L&S.
2. Arabic numerals should be used in the references to primary sources:
Paus. 9.29.4.
3. References to secondary literature should follow the Harvard system, and
be in the following form: Syme (1939) 123; Fraenkel (1957) 146-8.
4. The bibliography should be listed at the end of the article. Use italics
for book and journal titles:
Parke, H. W. (1986) ‘The Temple of Apollo at Didyma’, JHS 106: 121-31.
Syme, R. (1939) The Roman Revolution (Oxford)
Wiseman, T. P. (1993) ‘Lying Historians: Seven Types of Mendacity’, in C.
Gill and T. P. Wiseman, edd., Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World (Exeter
and Austin, Tex.) 122-46

Submissions
Articles should be submitted in Word format to histos AT ncl.ac.uk; if the
article contains Greek, please also submit a PDF. The text itself should be
anonymous.
Papers following different editorial conventions may be submitted
for consideration, with the understanding that appropriate formatting will
be carried out by the author(s) if the article is accepted.

You can check out the ‘previously defunct’ Histos page here …