Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts: Studies in Honour of A. J. Woodman
This is a collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, concentrating especially on 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. It takes the form of a tribute to Tony Woodman, Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, for whom twenty-one scholars have contributed essays reflecting the interests and approaches that have typified Woodman's own work. The authors that he has continuously illuminated - especially Velleius, Horace, Virgil, Sallust, and Tacitus - figure particularly prominently.
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Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts: Studies in Honour of A. J. Woodman
This is a collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, concentrating especially on 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. It takes the form of a tribute to Tony Woodman, Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, for whom twenty-one scholars have contributed essays reflecting the interests and approaches that have typified Woodman's own work. The authors that he has continuously illuminated - especially Velleius, Horace, Virgil, Sallust, and Tacitus - figure particularly prominently.
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Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts: Studies in Honour of A. J. Woodman

Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts: Studies in Honour of A. J. Woodman

Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts: Studies in Honour of A. J. Woodman

Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts: Studies in Honour of A. J. Woodman

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This is a collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, concentrating especially on 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. It takes the form of a tribute to Tony Woodman, Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, for whom twenty-one scholars have contributed essays reflecting the interests and approaches that have typified Woodman's own work. The authors that he has continuously illuminated - especially Velleius, Horace, Virgil, Sallust, and Tacitus - figure particularly prominently.

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ISBN-13: 9780191614095
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 05/20/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 18 MB
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About the Author

Christina S. Kraus is Professor of Classics at Yale University. John Marincola is Leon Golden Professor of Classics at Florida State University. Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

  • 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 of Halicarnassus and Livy on the Horatii and the Curiatii
  • 8: David West: Amores 1.1-5
  • 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 and the Thematic Unity of Georgics I
  • 11: John Marincola: Eros and Empire: Virgil and 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: Christopher Pelling: The Spur of Fame: Tacitus Annals 4.37-8
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