The second set of markers, those of historical intentionality and referentiality, will be discussed in chap. 5 under the heading of genre. Questions to be addressed are: Is it at all possible to determine the genre of an ancient text? Is it possible to determine how the ancient audience understood the texts? Were the texts intended to be history-writing in the first place? What standards do we demand from the texts before they, from our point of view, can be described as historiography? How does