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Ancient historiography and its contexts : studies in honour of A.J. Woodman / edited by Christina S. Kraus, John Marincola, and Christopher Pelling.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), Latin Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: xiii, 449 p. : port. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780199558681 (hbk.)
  • 019955868X (hbk.)
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Contents:
Author and audience. Narrative and speech problems in Thucydides book I / John Moles -- Divide and conquer : Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7 / Christina Shuttleworth Kraus -- Scipio the Matchmaker / Jane D. Chaplin -- Velleius Mythistoricus / T.P. Wiseman -- Quality and pleasure. Romani ueteres atque urbani sales : a note on Cicero De Oratore 2.262 and Lucilius 173M / Anna Chahoud -- Allusion and contrast in the letters of Nicias (thuc. 7.11-15) and Pompey (Sall. Hist. 2.98M) / Elizabeth A. Meyer -- Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy on the Horatii and the Curiatii / S.P. Oakley -- Amores 1.1-5 / David West -- Rome and Persia 357-9 : the role of Tamsapor / Robin Seager -- Poetry and politics. Munera uestra cano : the poet, the gods, and the thematic unity of Georgics 1 / Damien Nelis -- Eros and empire : Virgil and the historians on Civil War / John Marincola -- Fathers and sons : the Manlii Torquati and family continuity in Catullus and Horace / Denis Feeney -- Juvenal and the Delatores / J.G.F. Powell -- Roma and her tutelary deity : names and ancient evidence / Francis Cairns -- Tacitus reviewed. Seven passages of the Annals (and one of Manilus) / Edward Courtney -- The great escape : Tacitus on the mutiny of the Usipi (Agricola 28) -- Pompeius Trogus in Tacitus' Annals / David Levene -- Voices of resistance / Richard Rutherford -- The art of losing : Tacitus and the disaster narrative / Elizabeth Keitel -- The historian's presence, or, there and back again / Cynthia Damon -- The spur of fame : Annals 4.37-8 / Christopher Pelling.
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Printed Books British School at Rome 201.9.W.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not For Loan 201501118425BSR

Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-413) and indexes.

Author and audience. Narrative and speech problems in Thucydides book I / John Moles -- Divide and conquer : Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7 / Christina Shuttleworth Kraus -- Scipio the Matchmaker / Jane D. Chaplin -- Velleius Mythistoricus / T.P. Wiseman -- Quality and pleasure. Romani ueteres atque urbani sales : a note on Cicero De Oratore 2.262 and Lucilius 173M / Anna Chahoud -- Allusion and contrast in the letters of Nicias (thuc. 7.11-15) and Pompey (Sall. Hist. 2.98M) / Elizabeth A. Meyer -- Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy on the Horatii and the Curiatii / S.P. Oakley -- Amores 1.1-5 / David West -- Rome and Persia 357-9 : the role of Tamsapor / Robin Seager -- Poetry and politics. Munera uestra cano : the poet, the gods, and the thematic unity of Georgics 1 / Damien Nelis -- Eros and empire : Virgil and the historians on Civil War / John Marincola -- Fathers and sons : the Manlii Torquati and family continuity in Catullus and Horace / Denis Feeney -- Juvenal and the Delatores / J.G.F. Powell -- Roma and her tutelary deity : names and ancient evidence / Francis Cairns -- Tacitus reviewed. Seven passages of the Annals (and one of Manilus) / Edward Courtney -- The great escape : Tacitus on the mutiny of the Usipi (Agricola 28) -- Pompeius Trogus in Tacitus' Annals / David Levene -- Voices of resistance / Richard Rutherford -- The art of losing : Tacitus and the disaster narrative / Elizabeth Keitel -- The historian's presence, or, there and back again / Cynthia Damon -- The spur of fame : Annals 4.37-8 / Christopher Pelling.

In English with occasional instances of Ancient Greek and Latin.

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