Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts

NOTE EDITORE

This is a collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, concentrating especially on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of considering the literature to illuminate the historical Roman context and the historical context to illuminate the literature. It takes the form of a tribute to Tony Woodman, Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, for whom twenty-one scholars have contributed essays reflecting the interests and approaches that have typified Woodman's own work. The authors that he has continuously illuminated - especially Velleius, Horace, Virgil, Sallust, and Tacitus - figure particularly prominently.

SOMMARIO

1 - Narrative Problems in Thucydides Book I2 - Divide and Conquer: Caesar, De Bello Gallico 73 - Scipio the Matchmaker4 - Velleius Mythistoricus5 - Romani ueteres atque urbani sales: a Note on Cic. De Orat. 2.262 and Lucilius 173M6 - Allusion and Contrast in the Letters of Nicias (Thuc. 7.11-15) and Pompey (Sall. Hist. 2.98M)7 - Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy on the Horatii and the Curiatii8 - Amores 1.1-59 - Rome and Persia 357-9: The Role of Tamsapor10 - Munera uestra cano: The Poet, the Gods and the Thematic Unity of Georgics I11 - Eros and Empire: Virgil and the Historians on Civil War12 - Fathers and Sons: The Manlii Torquati and Family Continuity in Catullus and Horace13 - Juvenal and the Delatores14 - Roma and her Tutelary Deities: Names and Associations15 - Seven Passages of the Annals (And One of Manilius)16 - The Great Escape: Tacitus on the Mutiny of the Usipi (Agricola 28)17 - Pompeius Trogus in Tacitus' Annals18 - Voices of Resistance19 - The Art of Losing: Tacitus and the Disaster Narrative20 - The Historian's Presence, or There and Back Again21 - The Spur of Fame: Tacitus Annals 4.37-8

AUTORE

Christina S. Kraus is Professor of Classics at Yale University. John Marincola is Leon Golden Professor of Classics at Florida State University. Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199558681
• Dimensioni: 241 x 30.6 x 165 mm Ø 843 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 1 black and white photograph
• Pagine Arabe: 464