The Cambridge companion to The Roman historians

Parallelsachtitel: Companion to the Roman historians
Roman historians
Roman Historians
Weitere Verfasser: Feldherr, Andrew, 1963-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Umfang/Format: xviii, 464 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Cambridge companions to literature
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Inhalte/Bestandteile: 2 Datensätze
Online Zugang: Table of contents only
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / Andrew Feldherr
  • Ancient audiences and expectations / John Marincola
  • Postmodern historiographical theory and the Roman historians / William W. Batstone
  • Historians without history : against Roman historiography / J.E. Lendon
  • Alternatives to written history in Republican Rome / Harriet I. Flower
  • Roman historians and the Greeks : audiences and models / John Dillery
  • Cato's Origines : the historian and his enemies / Ulrich Gotter
  • Polybius / James Davidson
  • Time / Denis Feeney
  • Space / Andrew M. Riggsby
  • Religion in historiography / Jason Davies
  • Virtue and violence : the historians on politics / Joy Connolly
  • The rhetoric of Roman historiography / Andrew Laird
  • The exemplary past in Roman historiography and culture / Matthew Roller
  • Intertextuality and historiography / Ellen O'Gorman
  • Characterization and complexity : Caesar, Sallust, and Livy / Ann Vasaly
  • Representing the emperor / Caroline Vout
  • Women in Roman historiography / Kristina Milnor
  • Barbarians I : Quintus Curtius' and other Roman historians' reception of Alexander / Elizabeth Baynham
  • Barbarians II : Tacitus' Jews / Andrew Feldherr
  • Josephus / Honora Chapman
  • The Roman exempla tradition in imperial Greek historiography : the case of Camillus / Alain M. Gowing
  • Ammianus Marcellinus : Tacitus' heir and Gibbon's guide / Gavin Kelly
  • Ancient Roman historians and early modern political theory / Benedetto Fontana
  • Re-writing history for the early modern stage : Racine's Roman tragedies /Volker Schröder
  • The Roman historians and twentieth-century approaches to Roman history / Emma Dench.