Reading by Example: Valerius Maximus and the Historiography of Exempla
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From footnote-fodder to intellectual: Valerius Maximus, a generally under-appreciated minor author of the early first century AD emerges as a holder of distinct views on Rome's dynasty, their world, on how to behave within that world, and as an influencer of later thought both pagan and Christian.

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From footnote-fodder to intellectual: Valerius Maximus, a generally under-appreciated minor author of the early first century AD emerges as a holder of distinct views on Rome's dynasty, their world, on how to behave within that world, and as an influencer of later thought both pagan and Christian.
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Jeffrey Murray (PhD 2016 Cape Town) is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cape Town. He has published several articles, book chapters, and reviews, and is currently preparing for publication a historical and historiographical commentary on Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, Book 9. David Wardle (DPhil. 1989 Oxford) is Professor of Classics in the University of Cape Town (South Africa). He published the first modern commentary on a book of Valerius Maximus (Oxford University Press, 1998), other monographs in the field of Latin Literature and Roman historiography and articles on these areas and Roman imperial history. Contributors are John Atkinson, George Baroud, Emma Brobeck, Diederik Burgersdijk, Kyle Conrau-Lewis, Alain M. Gowing, Rebecca Langlands, Sarah Lawrence, Simon Lentzsch, Jeffrey Murray, Roman Roth, David Wardle.