The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians

An introduction to how the history of Rome was written in the ancient world, and its impact on later periods.

Autorentext
Andrew Feldherr is Professor of Classics at Princeton University, New Jersey. He is also the author of Spectacle and Society in Livy's History (1998) and Playing Gods: The Politics of Fiction in Ovid's Metamorphoses (forthcoming).

Inhalt
Introduction Andrew Feldherr; Part I. Approaches: 1. Ancient audiences and expectations John Marincola; 2. Postmodern historiographical theory and the Roman historians William W. Batstone; 3. Historians without history: against Roman historiography J. E. Lendon; Part II. Contexts and Traditions: 4. Alternatives to written history in Republican Rome Harriet I. Flower; 5. Roman historians and the Greeks: audiences and models John Dillery; 6. Cato's Origines: the historian and his enemies Ulrich Gotter; 7. Polybius James Davidson; Part III. Subjects: 8. Time Denis Feeney; 9. Space Andrew Riggsby; 10. Religion in historiography Jason Davies; 11. Virtue and violence: the historians on politics Joy Connolly; Part IV. Modes: 12. The rhetoric of Roman historiography Andrew Laird; 13. The exemplary past in Roman historiography and culture Matthew Roller; 14. Intertextuality and historiography Ellen O'Gorman; Part V. Characters: 15. Characterization and complexity: Caesar, Sallust, and Livy Ann Vasaly; 16. Representing the emperor Caroline Vout; 17. Women in Roman historiography Kristina Milnor; 18. Barbarians I: Quintus Curtius and other Roman historians' reception of Alexander Elizabeth Baynham; 19. Barbarians II: Tacitus' Jews Andrew Feldherr; Part VI. Transformations: 20. Josephus Honora Chapman; 21. The Roman exempla tradition in Imperial Greek historiography: the case of Camillus Alain M. Gowing; 22. Ammianus Marcellinus: Tacitus' heir and Gibbon's guide Gavin Kelly; 23. Ancient Roman historians and early modern political theory Benedetto Fontana; 24. Rewriting history for the early modern stage: Racine's Roman tragedies Volker Schröder; 25. 'Tacitus' Syme': the Roman historians and twentieth-century approaches to Roman history Emma Dench.

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