Matthew B. Roller

Models from the Past in Roman Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents a coherent model for understanding historical examples in Ancient Rome and their rhetorical, moral and historiographical functions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9781107162594
• ISBN-10: 1107162599
• Artikelnr.: 49449027

Autorenporträt

Matthew B. Roller is Professor of Classics at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of two earlier books: Constructing Autocracy: Aristocrats and Emperors in Julio-Claudian Rome (2001) and Dining Posture in Ancient Rome: Bodies, Values, and Status (2006). Apart from exemplarity, he is interested in aristocratic competition in the early Roman Empire, and in the younger Seneca's moral philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the work of examples
1. Horatius Cocles: commemorating and imitating a great deed
2. Cloelia: timelessness and gender
3. Appius Claudius Caecus: positive and negative exemplarity
4. Gaius Duilius: exemplarity and innovation
5. Fabius Cunctator: competing judgements and moral change
6. Cornelia: an exemplary matrona among the Gracchi
7. Cicero's house and 'Aspiring to Kingship'
Conclusion: exemplarity and stoicism.