My dissertation explores the relationship between local history and community identity in Classical and Hellenistic Greece. In Part One, a series of case studies focusing on the local historiography of diverse Greek localities (Argos, Arkadia, Boiotia, Pontic Herakleia, Samos, Sparta, and Thessaly), I try to understand how different orders of community (e.g. sanctuary, polis, island, and continental region) responded differently to the autobiographical impulse. In Part Two, which addresses the local historians themselves, I distinguish native from non-native writers and posit a primary role for ethnography in the origin and development of local historiography in Greece.