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ISBN: 2213024979 9782213024974 Year: 1990 Publisher: Paris Fayard

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The Cambridge companion to the Roman historians.
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ISBN: 9780521854535 9780521670937 0521670934 1139002716 0521854539 1139801260 9781139002714 Year: 2009 Volume: *132 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge university press

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No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationship between literature and its political contexts have ensured that the works of historians such as Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus will be read as texts with the same interest and sophistication as they are used as sources. In this book, topics central to the entire tradition, such as conceptions of time, characterization, and depictions of politics and the gods, are treated synoptically, while other essays highlight the works of less familiar historians, such as Curtius Rufus and Ammianus Marcellinus. A final section focuses on the rich reception history of Roman historiography, from the ancient Greek historians of Rome to the twentieth century. An appendix offers a chronological list of the ancient historians of Rome.

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