Reading by Example: Valerius Maximus and the Historiography of Exempla / / edited by Jeffrey Murray, David Wardle.
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...
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Superior document: | Historiography of Rome and Its Empire ; 11 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2022. |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Historiography of Rome and Its Empire ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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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.