Omnium annalium monumenta : historical writing and historical evidence in Republican Rome / edited by Kaj Sandberg, Christopher Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sandberg, Kaj (Kaj Erik Mikael), 1965- editor, author.

Smith, Christopher John, 1965- editor, author.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Harold C. Putnam Book Fund.

Series:

Historiography of Rome and its empire ; v. 2.

Historiography of Rome and Its empire ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Historiography.

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

Rome.

Historiography--Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 535 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This edited volume brings a variety of approaches to the problem of how the Romans conceived of their history, what were the mechanisms for their preservation of the past, and how did the Romans come to write about their past. Building on important recent work in historiography, and the recent memory turn, the authors consider the practicalities of transmission, literary and generic influences, and the role of the city of Rome in preserving and transmitting memories of the past. The result is a major contribution to our understanding of the role history played in Roman life, and the kinds of evidence which could be deployed in constructing Roman history. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Christopher Smith

Part I. The origins of the annalistic tradition

Fabius Pictor, ennius and the origins of Roman annalistic historiography / John Rich

L'"archeologie" de Rome dans les annales d'ennius: poetica fabula ou annalium monumentum? / Martine Chassignet

The discovery of Numa's writings: Roman sacral law and the early historians / Hans Beck

Part II. Antiquarians and historians

On the edges of history / Christopher Smith

Diligentissumus investigator antiquitatis? "Antiquarianism" and historical evidence between Republican Rome and the early modern Republic of letters / Duncan MacRae

Inspired leaders versus emerging nations: Varro's and Cicero's views on early Rome / Vera Binder

Which one is the historian? A neglected problem in the study of Roman historiography / Tim Cornell

Part III. History and oratory

How much history did the Romans know? Historical references in Cicero's speeches to the people / Francisco Pina Polo

Ciceronian constructions of the oratorical past / Henriette van der Blom

Cicero, documents and the implications for history / Andrew Riggsby

Part IV. The literary construction of history

Livy's battle in the forum between Roman monuments and Greek literature / Dennis Pausch

Echi dalle tragedie tebane nelle storie di Roma arcaica / Marianna Scapini

Figures of memory. Aulus Vibenna, Valerius Publicola and Mezentius between history and legend / Massimiliano Di Fazio

Part V. History and monuments

Monumenta, documenta, memoria: remembering and imagining the past in late Republican Rome / Kaj Sandberg

Visibility matters: notes on archaic monuments and collective memory in mid-Republican Rome / Gabriele Cifani

Aedificare, res damnosissima. building and historiography in Livy, books 5-6 / Seth G. Bernard

Memoria by multiplication: the Cornelii Scipiones in monumental memory / Karl-J. Holkeskamp

Constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing civic memory in late Republican Rome / Penelope J.E. Davies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 16, 2018).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harold C. Putnam Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Omnium annalium monumenta.

ISBN:

9789004355552

9004355553

Publisher Number:

99988344585

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.