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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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Valorizing the Barbarians : enemy speeches in Roman historiography
Comparing and contrasting speeches attributed to barbarian leaders by ancient Roman historians, this book offers a systematic examination of the ways in which those historians valorized foreigners and presented criticisms of their own society.
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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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Cassius Dio: The Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War
Cassius Dio: The Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War is part of a renewed interest in the Roman historian Cassius Dio. This volume focuses on Dio's approaches to foreign war and stasis as well as civil war. The impact of war on Rome as well as on the history of Rome has long be recognised by scholars, and adding to that, recent years have seen an increasing interest in the impact of civil war on Roman society. Dio's views on violence, war, and civil war are an inter-related part of his overall project, which sought to understand Roman history on its own historical and historiographical terms and within a long-range view of the Roman past that investigated the realities of power.
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Greek and Roman historiography
\"Over the past thirty years the study of classical historiography has undergone great changes. While not abandoning traditional questions about sources and reliability, newer scholarship, influenced and informed by the current debates in the academy at large about the nature and purpose of all historiography, has sought to understand the ancient historians on their own terms and has more closely engaged with the ways in which the Greeks and Romans constructed their pasts, with the various roles that history played in these societies, with the relationship of history as a literary composition to other genres, and with the importance of the historian himself in giving form and meaning to his history. The essays in the present volume, six of which are translated into English for the first time, address these and other issues. Topics treated include the relationship of history and myth, the importance of oral tradition in the formation of both Greek andRoman historical traditions, the role of memory (both individual and societal) in shaping notions of the past and determining what is thought worthy of record, the influence of other genres such as poetry and oratory on historiography, and ancient notions of falsehood and historical truth. An introduction places the essays in the larger context of earlier and more recent trends in the study of Greek and Roman historiography\"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.
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Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History
Conspiracy is a thread that runs throughout the tapestry of
Roman history. From the earliest days of the Republic to the waning
of the Empire, conspiracies and intrigues created shadow worlds
that undermined the openness of Rome's representational government.
To expose these dark corners and restore a sense of order and
safety, Roman historians frequently wrote about famous conspiracies
and about how their secret plots were detected and the perpetrators
punished. These accounts reassured readers that the conspiracy was
a rare exception that would not happen again-if everyone remained
vigilant.
In this first book-length treatment of conspiracy in Roman
history, Victoria Pagán examines the narrative strategies that five
prominent historians used to disclose events that had been
deliberately shrouded in secrecy and silence. She compares how
Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus constructed their accounts of the
betrayed Catilinarian, Bacchanalian, and Pisonian conspiracies. Her
analysis reveals how a historical account of a secret event depends
upon the transmittal of sensitive information from a private
setting to the public sphere-and why women and slaves often proved
to be ideal transmitters of secrets. Pagán then turns to Josephus's
and Appian's accounts of the assassinations of Caligula and Julius
Caesar to explore how the two historians maintained suspense
throughout their narratives, despite readers' prior knowledge of
the outcomes.
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Sallust
The Roman historian Sallust emerges from recent scholarship as one of the most innovative and original writers of the ancient world. His works describe the political and moral crises of Rome's civil wars in the first century BCE and raise questions about the possibilities for narrating the past that matter profoundly to historians today. This volume provides a substantial introduction to scholarship on Sallust, bringing together some of the best and most important studies from the last decades and setting them within the context of a rich and continuing scholarly tradition that includes influential works by Eduard Schwartz (1897) and Kurt Latte (1935). Each contribution presents a distinctive vision of the historian and together they reveal different aspects of his complexity and surprising modernity. Substantial attention is given to all three of Sallust's works: the monographs on the Catilinarian conspiracy and the war with Jugurtha, as well as the fragmentary Histories. Translations of important contributions by German and Italian scholars as well as a survey of the early modern reception of Sallust offer unprecedented access to the scope of Sallust studies. This volume will be an important resource for students of ancient history and Latin literature at all levels and also introduce a wider scholarly audience to Sallust's importance and interest.
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The historiography of Late Republican Civil War
The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War represents a close and coherent study of developments and discussions concerning the concept of civil war in the late republican and early imperial historiography of the late Republic.
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