TY  - BOOK
AU  - Poulsen,Aske Damtoft
AU  - Jönsson,Arne
TI  - Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography
T2  - Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series
SN  - 9789004445086
AV  - DG205 .U834 2021 
U1  - 937.0072 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Historians-Rome-Attitudes-Congresses
KW  - Rome-Historiography-Congresses
KW  - Rome-History-Errors, inventions, etc.-Congresses
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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