Reading History in the Roman Empire.

• Superior document: Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies ; v.98
• Author: Baumann, Mario.
• TeilnehmendeR: Liotsakis, Vasileios.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 pages)

Millennium pursues an interdisciplinary approach transcending historical eras. The international editorial board and the advisory board represent a wide range of disciplines - contributions from art and literary studies are just as welcome as historical, theological and philosophical disciplines; contributions on Latin and Greek cultures just as welcome as on Oriental cultures.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Sallust, the lector eruditus and the Purposes of History -- The Audience of Latin Historical Works in the First Century BCE in Light of Geographical Descriptions -- Livy, the Reader Involved, and the Audience of Roman Historiography -- From ἐξτ̔̈»Ε75;djvlw to μτ̔̈»Ε77;ojvlw: Thucydides' Readership in the ὑπομντ̔̈»Ε75;oaxa from the Roman Period -- Historiography in the Margins and the Reader as a Touchstone -- A History in Letters? The Intersection of Epistolarity and Historiography in Pliny -- Readership and Reading Practices of Ancient History in the Early Roman Empire: Tacitus' Accessions of Tiberius and Nero as a Case Study in Affective Historiography -- Reading Spaces, Observing Spectators in Tacitus' Histories -- How to Satisfy Everyone: Diverse Readerly Expectations and Multiple Authorial Personae in Arrian's Anabasis -- Multiple Authors and Puzzled Readers in the Historia Augusta -- Index locorum -- Index nominum et rerum.