Ronald Mellor

The Roman Historians

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ronald Mellor demonstrates that Roman historical writing was regarded by its authors as a literary, not a scholarly exercise, and how it must be evaluated in that context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 139mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780415117746
• ISBN-10: 0415117747
• Artikelnr.: 21396319

Autorenporträt

Ronald Mellor is Professor of History at UCLA. He is the author of Tacitus (1993) and The Historians of Ancient Rome: An Anthology (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Origins of Roman Historiography
3. Sallust
4. Livy
5. Tacitus
6. Ammianus Marcellinus
7. Roman Biography
8. Autobiography at Rome
9. Historical Writing at Rome
Further reading
Index.