Usages of the past in Roman historiography / / edited by Aske Damtoft Poulsen, Arne JoÌnsson.
"Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography contains 11 articles on how the Ancient Roman historians used, and manipulated, the past. What did they seek to accomplish by participating in its re-creation, what tools did they have at their disposal to do so, and which underlying conceptualisation...
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| Superior document: | Historiography of Rome and its Empire ; Volume 9 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Historiography of Rome and its empire ;
Volume 9. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (359 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Velleius Paterculus and the Battle of Actium / Roberto Cristofoli
- In short, the Republic: Florus and the (re)written Republic / Rachel Lilley Love
- Principatus ac Libertas!? Tacitus, the past and the principate of Trajan / Kai Ruffing
- "Making History": constructive wonder (aka Quellenforschung) and the composition of Caesar's Gallic War (Thanks to Labienus and Polybius) / Christopher B. Krebs
- When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, Livy (and Polybius) on the Gallic sack of Rome / Ulrike Roth
- Livy's Faliscan schoolmaster / Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
- From Thrasea Paetus to Calgacus - or was it the other way around? an example of Tacitean intratextuality / Aske Damtoft Poulsen
- The staging of death: Tacitus' Agrippina the Younger and the dramatic turn / Rhiannon Ash
- Tiberius and tears: grief and genre / Johan Vekselius
- Migration and mobile memory in the Roman historical digression / Kyle Khellaf
- Epilogue: history in Pompeii / Anne-Marie Leander Touati.