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.

Smith, Christopher John, 1965- editor.

Series:

Historiography of Rome and its empire ; Volume 2.

Historiography of Rome and Its Empire, 2408-2314 ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--Rome.

Historiography.

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

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (535 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2018.

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Preface

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction / Christopher Smith

The Origins of the Annalistic Tradition

Fabius Pictor, Ennius and the Origins of Roman Annalistic Historiography / John Rich

L’“archéologie” 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

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

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 Historical References in Cicero’s Speeches to the People / Francisco Pina Polo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

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

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 Bernard

Memoria by Multiplication: The Cornelii Scipiones in Monumental Memory / Karl-J. Hölkeskamp

Constructing, Deconstructing and Reconstructing Civic Memory in Late Republican Rome / Penelope J. E. Davies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-35555-3

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004355552 DOI