Literary Texts and the Roman HistorianLiterary Texts and the Roman Historian looks at literary texts from the Roman Empire which depict actual events. It examines the ways in which these texts were created, disseminated and read. |
Contents
Definitions | 11 |
Texts | 20 |
Illustrative evidence | 41 |
Narrative | 59 |
Scholarship | 79 |
Near Eastern records of the past and the Roman imagination | 95 |
Conclusion | 117 |
Presentation | 120 |
Cicero | 135 |
Verisimilitude | 144 |
Conclusion | 150 |
classical authors discussed in the text | 156 |
Notes | 168 |
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Objectivism and relativism | 126 |
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actually ancient Annales antiquity appears Assyria Augustus Caesar Cambridge century century BC changes Christian chronicle Cicero classical collection concerned connected constructed context copies critical cultural defined definition describe discourse discussion distinction documents draft earlier early Editions emperor empire especially Eunapius evidence fact final follow fragments Greek hand historian historiography important influence interesting issue language late later Latin letters linguistic literary literature Livy Marxism material mean methods narrative nature notes offered orator Oxford past period person possible present problem question Ranke readers reason record regarded representation rhetoric Roman Rome seems seen Senate simply social sort sources speech statement story style suggests Tacitus theory things thought Thucydides tion tradition true truth turn writing written wrote