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The Cambridge companion to the Roman historians / edited by Andrew Feldherr.
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English
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2009.
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xviii, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Classics Collection
DG205 .C35 2009
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Subject(s)
Historiography
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Rome
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Historians
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Rome
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Biography
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Rome
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Historiography
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History
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Feldherr, Andrew, 1963-
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Cambridge companions to literature
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Summary note
No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationship between literature and its political contexts have ensured that the works of historians such as Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus will be read as texts with the same interest and sophistication as they are used as sources. Topics central to the entire tradition, such as conceptions of time, characterization, and depictions of politics and the gods, are treated synoptically, while other essays highlight the works of less familiar historians, such as Curtius Rufus and Ammianus Marcellinus. A final section focuses on the rich reception history of Roman historiography, from the ancient Greek historians of Rome to the twentieth century. An appendix offers a chronological list of the ancient historians of Rome.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Andrew Feldherr
Ancient audiences and expectations / John Marincola
Postmodern historiographical theory and the Roman historians / William W. Batstone
Historians without history : against Roman historiography / J.E. Lendon
Alternatives to written history in Republican Rome / Harriet I. Flower
Roman historians and the Greeks : audiences and models / John Dillery
Cato's Origines : the historian and his enemies / Ulrich Gotter
Polybius / James Davidson
Time / Denis Feeney
Space / Andrew M. Riggsby
Religion in historiography / Jason Davies
Virtue and violence : the historians on politics / Joy Connolly
The rhetoric of Roman historiography / Andrew Laird
The exemplary past in Roman historiography and culture / Matthew Roller
Intertextuality and historiography / Ellen O'Gorman
Characterization and complexity : Caesar, Sallust, and Livy / Ann Vasaly
Representing the emperor / Caroline Vout
Women in Roman historiography / Kristina Milnor
Barbarians I : Quintus Curtius' and other Roman historians' reception of Alexander / Elizabeth Baynham
Barbarians II : Tacitus' Jews / Andrew Feldherr
Josephus / Honora Chapman
The Roman exempla tradition in imperial Greek historiography : the case of Camillus / Alain M. Gowing
Ammianus Marcellinus : Tacitus' heir and Gibbon's guide / Gavin Kelly
Ancient Roman historians and early modern political theory / Benedetto Fontana
Re-writing history for the early modern stage : Racine's Roman tragedies / Volker Schröder
The Roman historians and twentieth-century approaches to Roman history / Emma Dench.
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Companion to the Roman historians
ISBN
9780521854535 ((hbk.))
0521854539 ((hbk.))
9780521670937 ((pbk.))
0521670934 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2009009346
OCLC
313018307
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