ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY & ITS CONTEXTS C

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-955868-1
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 857 g

Demonstrates the importance of rhetoric for understanding ancient, especially Roman, writing
Outstanding studies of individual authors, poems, and passages bring out many so far neglected aspects

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Al, Kraus Et

Kraus, Christina S.

Marincola, John

Pelling, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
I. Author and Audience
1: John Moles: Narrative Problems in Thucydides Book I
2: Christina Shuttleworth Kraus: Divide and Conquer: Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7
3: Jane Chaplin: Scipio the Matchmaker
4: T. P. Wiseman: Velleius Mythistoricus
II. Quality and Pleasure
5: Anna Chahoud: Romani ueteres atque urbani sales: a Note on Cic. De Orat. 2.262 and Lucilius 173M
6: Elizabeth A. Meyer: Allusion and Contrast in the Letters of Nicias (Thuc. 7.11-15) and Pompey (Sall. Hist. 2.98M)
7: S. P. Oakley: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy on the Horatii and the Curiatii
8: David West: Amores 1.1-5
9: Robin Seager: Rome and Persia 357-9: The Role of Tamsapor
III. Poetry and Politics
10: Damien Nelis: Munera uestra cano: The Poet, the Gods and the Thematic Unity of Georgics I
11: John Marincola: Eros and Empire: Virgil and the Historians on Civil War
12: Denis Feeney: Fathers and Sons: The Manlii Torquati and Family Continuity in Catullus and Horace
13: J. G. F. Powell: Juvenal and the Delatores
14: Francis Cairns: Roma and her Tutelary Deities: Names and Associations
IV. Tacitus Reviewed
15: Edward Courtney: Seven Passages of the Annals (And One of Manilius)
16: Rhiannon Ash: The Great Escape: Tacitus on the Mutiny of the Usipi (Agricola 28)
17: D. S. Levene: Pompeius Trogus in Tacitus' Annals
18: Richard Rutherford: Voices of Resistance
19: Elizabeth Keitel: The Art of Losing: Tacitus and the Disaster Narrative
20: Cynthia Damon: The Historian's Presence, or There and Back Again
21: Christopher Pelling: The Spur of Fame: Tacitus Annals 4.37-8

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Christina S. Kraus, Professor of Classics, Yale University, John Marincola, Leon Golden Professor of Classics, Florida State University, and Christopher Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek, University of Oxford

Contributors:
Rhiannon Ash
Francis Cairns
Anna Chahoud
Jane Chaplin
Edward Courtney
Cynthia Damon
Denis Feeney
Elizabeth Keitel
Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
D. S. Levene
John Marincola
Elizabeth A. Meyer
John Moles
Damien Nelis
S. P. Oakley
Christopher Pelling
J. G. F. Powell
Richard Rutherford
Robin Seager
David West
T. P. Wiseman