Introduction / Tim Cornell, Andrew Fear, Peter Liddel.
Metabole politeion as universal historiography / Peter Liddel.
Polybius and the first universal history / François Hartog.
Diodorus' reading of Polybius' universalism / Brian Sheridan.
Diodorus' good statesman and state revenue / Errietta Bissa.
Strabo and the development of ancient Greek universal historiography / Johannes Engels.
The glory of Italy and Rome's universal destiny in Strabo's Gegraphika / Marta García Morcillo.
Universal history and the early Roman historians / Tim Cornell.
Universal and particular in Velleius Paterculus : Carthage versus Rome / Clemence Schultze.
Focalised universality : contextualising the genre / Liv Mariah Yarrow.
Ennius as universal historian : the case of the Annales / Jackie Elliott.
Theology versus genre? the universalism of Christian historiography in late antiquity / Peter Van Nuffelen.
Orosius and escaping from the dance of doom / Andrew Fear.
A rose in the desert? Late antiquity and early Byzantine chronicles and the formation of Islamic universal historiography / Marco Di Branco.
Universal historiography and world history according to Hegel / Allegra de Laurentiis.
Spengler, the modern west, and Roman decline / John Farrenkopf.