Portion of title |
Companion to the Roman historians |
Portion of title |
Roman historians |
Series |
Cambridge companions to literature
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Contents |
Introduction / Andrew Feldherr -- Ancient audiences and expectations / John Marincola -- Postmodern historiographical theory and the Roman historians / William W. Batstone -- Historians without history : against Roman historiography / J.E. Lendon -- Alternatives to written history in Republican Rome / Harriet I. Flower -- Roman historians and the Greeks : audiences and models / John Dillery -- Cato's Origines : the historian and his enemies / Ulrich Gotter -- Polybius / James Davidson -- Time / Denis Feeney -- Space / Andrew M. Riggsby -- Religion in historiography / Jason Davies -- Virtue and violence : the historians on politics / Joy Connolly -- The rhetoric of Roman historiography / Andrew Laird -- The exemplary past in Roman historiography and culture / Matthew Roller -- Intertextuality and historiography / Ellen O'Gorman -- Characterization and complexity : Caesar, Sallust, and Livy / Ann Vasaly -- Representing the emperor / Caroline Vout -- Women in Roman historiography / Kristina Milnor -- Barbarians I : Quintus Curtius' and other Roman historians' reception of Alexander / Elizabeth Baynham -- Barbarians II : Tacitus' Jews / Andrew Feldherr -- Josephus / Honora Chapman -- The Roman exempla tradition in imperial Greek historiography : the case of Camillus / Alain M. Gowing -- Ammianus Marcellinus : Tacitus' heir and Gibbon's guide / Gavin Kelly -- Ancient Roman historians and early modern political theory / Benedetto Fontana -- Re-writing history for the early modern stage : Racine's Roman tragedies / Volker Schröder -- The Roman historians and twentieth-century approaches to Roman history / Emma Dench. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 418-454) and index. |
Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
LCCN | 2009009346 |
ISBN | 9780521854535 (hbk.) |
ISBN | 0521854539 (hbk.) |
ISBN | 9780521670937 (pbk.) |
ISBN | 0521670934 (pbk.) |