Literary Texts And The Roman Historian
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Author | : David Potter |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2005-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134962320 |
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Literary 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.
Author | : Andrew Feldherr |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2009-09-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521854539 |
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An introduction to how the history of Rome was written in the ancient world, and its impact on later periods. It presents essays by an international team of scholars that aim both to orient non-specialist readers to the important concerns of the Roman historians and also to stimulate new research.
Author | : Charles Thomas Cruttwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Latin literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ronald Mellor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2002-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134816529 |
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The Romans' devotion to their past pervades almost every aspect of their culture. But the clearest image of how the Romans wished to interpret their past is found in their historical writings. This book examines in detail the major Roman historians: * Sallust * Livy * Tacitus * Ammianus as well as the biographies written by: * Nepos * Tacitus * Suetonius * the Augustan History * the autobiographies of Julius Caesar and the Emperor Augustus. Ronald Mellor demonstrates that Roman historical writing was regarded by its authors as a literary not a scholarly exercise, and how it must be evaluated in that context. He shows that history writing reflected the political structures of ancient Rome under the different regimes.
Author | : Alexander Petrie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Latin language |
ISBN | : |
Download An Introduction to Roman History, Literature and Antiquities Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Elaine Fantham |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2013-07-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 142140835X |
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This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.
Author | : Robert M. Scoon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2009-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781104464233 |
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author | : M. von Albrecht |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1864 |
Release | : 2019-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004329900 |
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Michael von Albrecht's A History of Roman Literature, originally published in German, can rightly be seen as the long awaited counterpart to Albin Lesky's Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur. In what will probably be the last survey made by a single scholar the whole of Latin literature from Livius Andronicus up to Boethius comes to the fore. 'Literature' is taken here in its broad, antique sense, and therefore also includes e.g. rhetoric, philosophy and history. Special attention has been given to the influence of Latin literature on subsequent centuries down to our own days. Extensive indices give access to this monument of learning. The introductions in Von Albrecht's texts, together with the large bibliographies make further study both more fruitful and easy.
Author | : Ronald Mellor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 618 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136222618 |
Download The Historians of Ancient Rome Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume. After a general introduction on Roman historical writing, extensive passages from more than a dozen Greek and Roman historians and biographers trace the history of Rome over more than a thousand years: from the city’s foundation by Romulus in 753 B.C.E. (Livy) to Constantine’s edict of toleration for Christianity (313 C.E.) Selections include many of the high points of Rome’s climb to world domination: the defeat of Hannibal; the conquest of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean; the defeat of the Catilinarian conspirators; Caesar’s conquest of Gaul; Antony and Cleopatra; the establishment of the Empire by Caesar Augustus; and the "Roman Peace" under Hadrian and long excepts from Tacitus record the horrors of the reigns of Tiberius and Nero. The book is intended both for undergraduate courses in Roman history and for the general reader interested in approaching the Romans through the original historical sources. Hence, excerpts of Polybius, Livy, and Tacitus are extensive enough to be read with pleasure as an exciting narrative. Now in its third edition, changes to this thoroughly revised volume include a new timeline, translations of several key inscriptions such as the Twelve Tables, and additional readings. This is a book which no student of Roman history should be without.
Author | : Vasileios Liotsakis |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2016-09-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110493292 |
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A significant trend in the study of Greek and Roman historiographers is to accept that their works are to a degree both science and fiction. As scholarly interest broadens, in addition to evaluating ancient historians on the basis of the reliability of the information they record, and verifying the narratives against various elements of the material (inscriptions, excavations, numismatics), new studies are beginning to elaborate on the stylistic and narrative qualities of the texts themselves. The present volume offers a fine collection of essays that on the whole emphasize the literary dimensions of the ancient Greek and Roman historians. Offering narratological, linguistic, and theoretical approaches to historiography, the contributors of the book elaborate on the intersections between historiography and other literary genres, the literary manipulation of military events and the criteria of selectivity, the reception of ancient historical texts in other genres, time and space in historical narrative, and plenty of other relevant topics. The shared belief of the authors is that there is a close interrelation between the literary features and the scientific value of ancient Greek and Roman historiography.