Roman culture and society : collected papers / Elizabeth Rawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rawson, Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

History.

Rome--History--Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.

Physical Description:

x, 615 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

Summary:

Elizabeth Rawson (1934-1988) was a distinguished specialist in the history, society, and culture of the later Roman Republic and Augustan period. First published between 1971 and 1989, her papers cover the workings of human politics and society, historical and antiquarian thinking at Rome, and literary history. The collection offers an essential contribution to the understanding of the central period of Roman history.

Contents:

1. Prodigy Lists and the Use of the Annales Maximi 1

2. L. Crassus and Cicero: The Formation of a Statesman 16

3. The Literary Sources for the Pre-Marian Army 34

4. Cicero the Historian and Cicero the Antiquarian 58

5. Scipio, Laelius, Furius, and the Ancestral Religion 80

6. The Eastern Clientelae of Clodius and the Claudii 102

7. The Interpretation of Cicero's De legibus 125

8. Religion and Politics in the Late Second Century BC at Rome 149

9. Caesar's Heritage: Hellenistic Kings and their Roman Equals 169

10. Architecture and Sculpture: the Activities of the Cossutii 189

11. The Ciceronian Aristocracy and its Properties 204

12. Homo Novus Arpinas ex M. Crassi Familia, [Sallust], Cic. 3 223

13. More on the Clientelae of the Patrician Claudii 227

14. The First Latin Annalists 245

15. The Identity Problems of Q. Cornificius 272

16. Caesar, Etruria, and the Disciplina Etrusca 289

17. The Introduction of Logical Organization in Roman Prose Literature 324

18. M. Aeficius Calvinus and his Grammaticus 352

19. Caerellii, Juno Populona, and Aquinum 359

20. L. Cornelius Sisenna and the Early First Century BC 363

21. Chariot-Racing in the Roman Republic 389

22. History, Historiography, and Cicero's Expositio Consiliorum Suorum 408

23. Crassorum Funera 416

24. The Life and Death of Asclepiades of Bithynia 427

25. Cicero and the Areopagus 444

26. Theatrical Life in Republican Rome and Italy 468

27. Cassius and Brutus: The Memory of the Liberators 488

28. Discrimina Ordinum: The Lex Julia Theatralis 508

29. Sallust on the Eighties 546

30. Speciosa Locis Morataque Recte 570

31. The Antiquarian Tradition: Spoils and Representations of Foreign Armour 582.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

019814752X

OCLC:

22492631