Reading by Example: Valerius Maximus and the Historiography of Exempla / / edited by Jeffrey Murray, David Wardle.

• Superior document: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire ; 11
• TeilnehmendeR: Wardle, David,; Murray, Jeffrey,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire ; 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Long regarded as a sycophantic producer of overblown moral platitudes, Valerius Maximus emerges from a series of studies as an independent thinker capable of challenging his readers through the material he has collected: he makes them think about real moral dilemmas and grants to non-Roman societies a remarkable equivalence to Rome. Through his silences as much as his sermons he decodes the value- and political-system of his day. Valerius is talented as a reader of others and himself was read appreciatively in the Later Empire and even more so by Christians in Medieval Europe.

Table of Contents

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series -- Carsten H. Lange and Jesper M. Madsen -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Jeffrey Murray -- PART 1: Architecture and Order -- 2 "Not Putting Roman History in Order?" - Regal, Republican and Imperial Boundaries -- David Wardle -- 3 And Now for Something Completely Different ... -- Sarah Lawrence -- PART 2: Roman History -- 4 Coriolanus as an Exemplar in Valerius Maximus -- John Atkinson -- 5 Boundary Issues: Valerius Maximus on Rome's Italian Allies -- Roman Roth -- 6 "Others Took Money from That Victory, but He Took the Glory": Spoils of War in the Facta et dicta memorabilia -- Simon Lentzsch -- 7 Forgetting Germanicus: Reading Valerius Maximus through Tacitus' Tiberian Books -- Alain Gowing -- PART 3: Values -- 8 Valerius Maximus' Engagement with Cicero's Tusculan Disputations on Virtue and the Endurance of Pain, in 3.3 De patientia -- Rebecca Langlands -- 9 Amicitia and the Politics of Friendship in Valerius Maximus -- George Baroud -- 10 Valerius Maximus on Vice -- Jeffrey Murray -- 11 Efficacior Pictura: Morality and the Arts in Valerius Maximus -- Emma Brobeck -- Part 4: Reception and Tradition -- 12 Valerius Maximus' Facta et Dicta Memorabilia and the Roman Biographical Tradition -- Diederik Burgersdijk -- 13 Preaching Ancient History: Valerius Maximus and His Manuscript Reception -- Kyle Conrau-Lewis -- Index.