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Roman historiography : an introduction to its basic aspects and development
Surverying Roman historical writing, from its origins through to Christian late antiquity, this work discusses historical writers of significance, outlining their biographical details, considering their work in terms of essential themes, and situating it in the context of Roman literature and society more broadly.
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The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians
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.
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Sons of hellenism, fathers of the church
This groundbreaking study brings into dialogue for the first time the writings of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and his most outspoken critic, Bishop Gregory of Nazianzus, a central figure of Christianity. Susanna Elm compares these two men not to draw out the obvious contrast between the Church and the Emperor's neo-Paganism, but rather to find their common intellectual and social grounding. Her insightful analysis, supplemented by her magisterial command of sources, demonstrates the ways in which both men were part of the same dialectical whole. Elm recasts both Julian and Gregory as men entirely of their times, showing how the Roman Empire in fact provided Christianity with the ideological and social matrix without which its longevity and dynamism would have been inconceivable.
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Roman historiography : an introduction to its basic aspects and development
\"Roman historiography : an introduction to its basic aspects and development presents a comprehensive introduction to the development of Roman historical writings in the ancient world. Andreas Mehl traces the arc of ancient historical writing about Rome from its origins with the authors of clan history and fragmentary annalists to the writings of Byzantine scholar Procopius, the last major historian of the ancient world. Rooting his survey in the context of its Greek predecessors, and within the broader frame Roman literature and society, Mehl discusses every historical writer of significance in the ancient Roman era and provides much more than simple biographical detail. Also considered are essential themes such as genre, teleology, the idea of Rome, and exemplary moral conduct. By paying scrupulous attention to political context and religious developments throughout the ancient world, Mehl reveals the evolution and interpenetration of both pagan and Christian historiography. This title offers a wealth of illuminating insights into the origins and development of the crucial historical writings of the living witnesses to the greatest empire the world has ever known\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Oral Historian as Memorist
This paper explores some issues in relation to oral history and memory that emerge in Alessandro Portelli's The Order Has Been Carried Out. I examine the contemporary role of the oral historian, the relationship between the present and the past in memory work, and make some comments about how we might articulate the field of oral history with memory studies more closely for the enrichment of both.
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Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography
Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography contains 11 articles on how the Ancient Roman historians used, and manipulated, the past. Key themes include the impact of autocracy, the nature of intertextuality, and the frontiers between history and other genres.
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Introduction to the Session
[...]we have with us today some of the foremost students of historical memoryJacquelyn Dowd Hall is Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where, since 1973, she has also directed the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP). Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Presss Rights and Permissions website, at http://www.ucpress.edu/journals/rights.htm.2 ORAL HISTORY REVIEWthe study not only of what happened but of how people remember what happened and how they give meaning to the past.Oral historians, for their part, have been engaged with issues of memoryself-consciously, theoretically, reflexivelyat least since the early 1970s. [...]there seems to be no end to the enormously creative work now taking place at the juncture between oral history, cultural studies, performance studies, and other interdisciplinary fields.No one, of course, has done more to advance our understanding of the politics and poetics of memory than Alessandro Portelli, and by bringing together historians of memory who rely primarily on textual sources with those who look particularly to the practice of oral history for their insights and questions, we hope to spark a discussion about some of the central questions that have preoccupied scholars in recent years.Among the questions we hope to raise are the following: Signaled in part by the Premio Viareggia, a major literary prize, The Order Has Been Carried Out is not only a breakthrough book for all of us, it is also an intervention in historyin ways that Im sure our panelists will discuss.David Blight, who teaches at Yale and studies race and politics during the Civil War era, is the author of, among other things, perhaps the preeminent work on race and memory by a historian of the U.S.: Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory.
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Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska’s Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom
The assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE triggered a power struggle that ultimately ended the Roman Republic and, eventually, the Ptolemaic Kingdom, leading to the rise of the Roman Empire. Climate proxies and written documents indicate that this struggle occurred during a period of unusually inclement weather, famine, and disease in the Mediterranean region; historians have previously speculated that a large volcanic eruption of unknown origin was the most likely cause. Here we show using well-dated volcanic fallout records in six Arctic ice cores that one of the largest volcanic eruptions of the past 2,500 y occurred in early 43 BCE, with distinct geochemistry of tephra deposited during the event identifying the Okmok volcano in Alaska as the source. Climate proxy records show that 43 and 42 BCE were among the coldest years of recent millennia in the Northern Hemisphere at the start of one of the coldest decades. Earth system modeling suggests that radiative forcing from this massive, high-latitude eruption led to pronounced changes in hydroclimate, including seasonal temperatures in specific Mediterranean regions as much as 7 °C below normal during the 2 y period following the eruption and unusually wet conditions. While it is difficult to establish direct causal linkages to thinly documented historical events, the wet and very cold conditions from this massive eruption on the opposite side of Earth probably resulted in crop failures, famine, and disease, exacerbating social unrest and contributing to political realignments throughout the Mediterranean region at this critical juncture of Western civilization.
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Fossilized Lies: A Reflection on Alessandro Portelli's The Order Has Been Carried Out
The Order Has Been Carried Out is a sobering, probing, moving, and deeply-researched study of an \"open wound\" in the Italian memory. Individuals and societies need memory, but it also is part of the agony of the human condition to live with it. Portelli and his narrators probe the memory of the \"fossilized lies\" of the Fosse Ardeatine, and establish a record of what happened, examine the history of the event's memory, and seek to understand the trauma of the event, the ethics of armed resistance, and the nature of memorialization. The account invites comparison to the American phenomenon after the Civil War in which reconciliation took hold of American culture and memory at the expense of racial justice, creating a narrative in which everyone who fought valiantly was right, and no one was wrong.
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