Ancient historiography and its contexts: studies in honour of A. J. Woodman

A collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, a tribute to the distinguished classicist Tony Woodman. The focus is upon the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of considering the literature to illuminate the historical Roman context and the historical context to illuminate the literature. INDICE: Introduction; I. Author and Audience; 1: John Moles: Narrative Problems in Thucydides Book I; 2: Christina Shuttleworth Kraus: Divide and Conquer: Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7; 3: Jane Chaplin: Scipio the Matchmaker; 4: T. P. Wiseman: Velleius Mythistoricus; II. Quality and Pleasure; 5: Anna Chahoud: Romani ueteres atque urbani sales: a Note on Cic. De Orat. 2.262 and Lucilius 173M; 6: Elizabeth A. Meyer: Allusion and Contrast in the Letters of Nicias(Thuc. 7.11-15) and Pompey (Sall. Hist. 2.98M); 7: S. P. Oakley: Dionysius ofHalicarnassus and Livy on the Horatii and the Curiatii; 8: David West: Amores1.1-5; 9: Robin Seager: Rome and Persia 357-9: The Role of Tamsapor; III. Poetry and Politics; 10: Damien Nelis: Munera uestra cano: The Poet, the Gods andthe Thematic Unity of Georgics I; 11: John Marincola: Eros and Empire: Virgiland the Historians on Civil War; 12: Denis Feeney: Fathers and Sons: The Manlii Torquati and Family Continuity in Catullus and Horace; 13: J. G. F. Powell:Juvenal and the Delatores; 14: Francis Cairns: Roma and her Tutelary Deities:Names and Associations; IV. Tacitus Reviewed; 15: Edward Courtney: Seven Passages of the Annals (And One of Manilius); 16: Rhiannon Ash: The Great Escape: Tacitus on the Mutiny of the Usipi (Agricola 28); 17: D. S. Levene: Pompeius Trogus in Tacitus' Annals; 18: Richard Rutherford: Voices of Resistance; 19: Elizabeth Keitel: The Art of Losing: Tacitus and the Disaster Narrative; 20: Cynthia Damon: The Historian's Presence, or There and Back Again; 21: ChristopherPelling: The Spur of Fame: Tacitus Annals 4.37-8

• ISBN: 978-0-19-955868-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 464
• Fecha Publicación: 20/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés