A. Feldherr (dir.), The Cambridge companion to the Roman historians

Andrew Feldherr (dir.), The Cambridge companion to the Roman historians. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xviii, 464 p.

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Présentation de l'éditeur:

No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the lastcouple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a newreceptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationshipbetween literature and its political contexts have ensured that theworks of historians such as Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus will be read astexts with the same interest and sophistication as they are used assources. Topics central to the entire tradition, such as conceptions oftime, characterization, and depictions of politics and the gods, aretreated synoptically, while other essays highlight the works of lessfamiliar historians, such as Curtius Rufus and Ammianus Marcellinus. Afinal section focuses on the rich reception history of Romanhistoriography, from the ancient Greek historians of Rome to thetwentieth century. An appendix offers a chronological list of theancient historians of Rome.

• Adopts a novel way of presenting the subject by using a thematic rather than author-based approach• Provides wide coverage of Roman historians such as Livy, Sallust and Tacitus as well as their Greek predecessors• The contributors are internationally known experts in their respective fields and cover a wide range of disciplines

Table des matières:

Introduction Andrew Feldherr;

Part I. Approaches: 1. Ancient audiences andexpectations John Marincola; 2. Postmodern historiographical theory andthe Roman historians William W. Batstone; 3. Historians withouthistory: against Roman historiography J. E. Lendon;

Part II. Contexts and Traditions: 4. Alternatives towritten history in Republican Rome Harriet I. Flower; 5. Romanhistorians and the Greeks: audiences and models John Dillery; 6. Cato'sOrigines: the historian and his enemies Ulrich Gotter; 7. PolybiusJames Davidson;

Part III. Subjects: 8. Time Denis Feeney; 9. SpaceAndrew Riggsby; 10. Religion in historiography Jason Davies; 11. Virtueand violence: the historians on politics Joy Connolly;

Part IV. Modes: 12. The rhetoric of Romanhistoriography Andrew Laird; 13. The exemplary past in Romanhistoriography and culture Matthew Roller; 14. Intertextuality andhistoriography Ellen O'Gorman;

Part V. Characters: 15. Characterization andcomplexity: Caesar, Sallust, and Livy Ann Vasaly; 16. Representing theemperor Caroline Vout; 17. Women in Roman historiography KristinaMilnor; 18. Barbarians I: Quintus Curtius and other Roman historians'reception of Alexander Elizabeth Baynham; 19. Barbarians II: Tacitus'Jews Andrew Feldherr;

Part VI. Transformations: 20. Josephus HonoraChapman; 21. The Roman exempla tradition in Imperial Greekhistoriography: the case of Camillus Alain M. Gowing; 22. AmmianusMarcellinus: Tacitus' heir and Gibbon's guide Gavin Kelly; 23. AncientRoman historians and early modern political theory Benedetto Fontana;24. Rewriting history for the early modern stage: Racine's Romantragedies Volker Schröder; 25. "Tacitus' Syme": the Roman historiansand twentieth-century approaches to Roman history Emma Dench.