The Cambridge companion to the Roman historians / edited by Andrew Feldherr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feldherr, Andrew, 1963- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--Rome.

Historiography.

Historians--Rome--Biography.

Historians.

Rome--Historiography.

Rome.

Rome--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 464 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationship between literature and its political contexts have ensured that the works of historians such as Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus will be read as texts with the same interest and sophistication as they are used as sources. In this book, topics central to the entire tradition, such as conceptions of time, characterization, and depictions of politics and the gods, are treated synoptically, while other essays highlight the works of less familiar historians, such as Curtius Rufus and Ammianus Marcellinus. A final section focuses on the rich reception history of Roman historiography, from the ancient Greek historians of Rome to the twentieth century. An appendix offers a chronological list of the ancient historians of Rome.

Contents:

Introduction / Andrew Feldherr

Ancient audiences and expectations / John Marincola

Postmodern historiographical theory and the Roman historians / William W. Batstone

Historians without history : against Roman historiography / J.E. Lendon

Alternatives to written history in Republican Rome / Harriet I. Flower

Roman historians and the Greeks : audiences and models / John Dillery

Cato's Origines : the historian and his enemies / Ulrich Gotter

Polybius / James Davidson

Time / Denis Feeney

Space / Andrew M. Riggsby

Religion in historiography / Jason Davies

Virtue and violence : the historians on politics / Joy Connolly

The rhetoric of Roman historiography / Andrew Laird

The exemplary past in Roman historiography and culture / Matthew Roller

Intertextuality and historiography / Ellen O'Gorman

Characterization and complexity : Caesar, Sallust, and Livy / Ann Vasaly

Representing the emperor / Caroline Vout

Women in Roman historiography / Kristina Milnor

Barbarians I : Quintus Curtius' and other Roman historians' reception of Alexander / Elizabeth Baynham

Barbarians II : Tacitus' Jews / Andrew Feldherr

Josephus / Honora Chapman

The Roman exempla tradition in imperial Greek historiography : the case of Camillus / Alain M. Gowing

Ammianus Marcellinus : Tacitus' heir and Gibbon's guide / Gavin Kelly

Ancient Roman historians and early modern political theory / Benedetto Fontana

Re-writing history for the early modern stage : Racine's Roman tragedies / Volker Schröder

The Roman historians and twentieth-century approaches to Roman history / Emma Dench.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 418-454) and index.

ISBN:

1-139-80126-0

1-139-00271-6

0-521-85453-9