Literary Texts and the Roman HistorianLiterary Texts and the Roman Historian looks at literary texts from the Roman Empire which depict actual events. It examines the ways in which these texts were created, disseminated and read. Beside covering the major Roman historical authors such as Livy and Tacitus, he also considers the contributions of authors in other genres like: * Cicero * Lucian * Aulus Gellius. Literary Texts and the Roman Historian provides an accessible and concise introduction to the complexities of Roman historiography. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 Definitions | 5 |
Chapter 2 Texts | 20 |
Chapter 3 Scholarship | 80 |
Chapter 4 Presentation | 122 |
the discourse of dominance? | 155 |
Classical authors discussed in the text | 159 |
Notes | 169 |
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Ammianus ancient Annales antiquity appears Atticus Augustus Berossus Boissevain Caesar Cambridge Cassius Dio century BC Christian chronicle Chronographic Cicero classical Commentary concerned contemporary context copies critical cultural Dionysius Dionysius of Halicarnassus discourse discussion documents Editions Ephorus Eunapius Eusebius Eusebius’s evidence eyewitness fact FGrH fiction fourth century fragments Galen genres Greek Herodian Herodotus Historia Augusta historian historical writing historiography history of Rome Homer important interesting issue Jacoby Jacoby’s Latin Leopold von Ranke letters literary literature Livy Loeb Lucian Manetho manuscript Marius Maximus modern narrative offered orator Oxford papyri person Pliny Polybius postmodernism problem Prophets and Emperors question quotation R.Syme Ranke Ranke’s record repr rhetoric Roman Empire Roman history Roman world Rome’s second century Senate social sort sources speech story style Suetonius suggests surviving Tacitus Teubner textual theory things Thuc Thucydides tradition truth written wrote Zenodotus