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 ; 11.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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