Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (359 pages)
- Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series ; v.9 .
- Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- References and Abbreviations -- Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series -- Introduction: Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography -- Part 1 Coming to Terms with the Principate -- Chapter 1 Velleius Paterculus and the Battle of Actium -- Chapter 2 In Short, the Republic: Florus and the (Re)Written Republic -- Chapter 3 Principatus ac Libertas!? Tacitus, the Past and the Principate of Trajan -- Part 2 Intertextuality and Intratextuality -- Chapter 4 "Making History": Constructive Wonder (aka Quellenforschung) and the Composition of Caesar's Gallic War (Thanks to Labienus and Polybius) -- Chapter 5 When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes … Livy (and Polybius) on the Gallic Sack of Rome -- Chapter 6 Livy's Faliscan Schoolmaster -- Chapter 7 From Thrasea Paetus to Calgacus - or Was It the Other Way Around? An Example of Tacitean Intratextuality -- Part 3 The Frontiers of Historiography -- Chapter 8 The Staging of Death: Tacitus' Agrippina the Younger and the Dramatic Turn -- Chapter 9 Tiberius and Tears: Grief and Genre -- Chapter 10 Migration and Mobile Memory in the Roman Historical Digression -- Chapter 11 Epilogue: History in Pompeii -- Index Nominum et Rerum -- Index Locorum.
Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography contains 11 articles on how the Ancient Roman historians used, and manipulated, the past. Key themes include the impact of autocracy, the nature of intertextuality, and the frontiers between history and other genres.