Literary Texts and the Roman Historian looks at literary texts from the Roman Empire which depict actual events. It examines the ways in which these texts were created, disseminated and read. Beside covering the major Roman historical authors such as Livy and Tacitus, he also considers the contributions of authors in other genres like: * Cicero * Lucian * Aulus Gellius. Literary Texts and the Roman Historian provides an accessible and concise introduction to the complexities of Roman historiography.
Literary Texts and the Roman Historian looks at literary texts from the Roman Empire which depict actual events. It examines the ways in which these texts were created, disseminated and read. Beside covering the major Roman historical authors such as Livy and Tacitus, he also considers the contributions of authors in other genres like: * Cicero * Lucian * Aulus Gellius. Literary Texts and the Roman Historian provides an accessible and concise introduction to the complexities of Roman historiography.
David S. Potter is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. he is the author of prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire (1990) and Prophets and Emperors: Human and Divine Authority from Augustus to Theodosius (1993)
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Definitions: Historia as Enquiry Historia as Story Truth and History Some Rules Texts: Sorting Things Out Participant Evidence Publication and Literary Fashion Illustrative Evidence Narrative Reconstructing Fragmentary Authors Scholarship: Standards of Research Historians and Records Quellenforschung Near Eastern Records of the Past and the Roman Imagination Grammarians and Historians The Physical Process Conclusion Presentation: The Problem Leopold Ranke Objectivism and relativism Fact and Presentation: Lucien and Dionysius of Halicarnassus Fact and Presentation: Cicero Other Forms of Presentation Versimilitude Conclusion Epilogue: The Discourse of Dominance Appendix: Classical Authors Discussed in the Text Bibliography.
Definitions: Historia as Enquiry Historia as Story Truth and History Some Rules Texts: Sorting Things Out Participant Evidence Publication and Literary Fashion Illustrative Evidence Narrative Reconstructing Fragmentary Authors Scholarship: Standards of Research Historians and Records Quellenforschung Near Eastern Records of the Past and the Roman Imagination Grammarians and Historians The Physical Process Conclusion Presentation: The Problem Leopold Ranke Objectivism and relativism Fact and Presentation: Lucien and Dionysius of Halicarnassus Fact and Presentation: Cicero Other Forms of Presentation Versimilitude Conclusion Epilogue: The Discourse of Dominance Appendix: Classical Authors Discussed in the Text Bibliography.
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