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Usages of the past in Roman historiography

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"Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography contains 11 articles on how the Ancient Roman historians used, and manipulated, the past. What did they seek to accomplish by participating in its re-creation, what tools did they have at their disposal to do so, and which underlying conceptualisations of history can we glimpse behind their efforts? Key themes include the impact of the transformation from Republic to Empire on the production of history, the nature of intertextuality in historical writing, and the frontiers between history and other literary genres. The volume, edited by Aske Damtoft Poulsen and Arne Jönsson, encompasses diverse approaches to the study of Roman history and historiography, with contributors from the UK, US, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, and Italy. Contributors are: Rhiannon Ash, Roberto Cristofoli, Aske Damtoft Poulsen, Kyle Khellaf, Christopher B. Krebs, Christina Shuttleworth Kraus, Anne-Marie Leander Touati, Rachel Lilley Love, Ulrike Roth, Kai Ruffing & Johan Vekselius"-- Provided by publisher.

Title Usages of the past in Roman historiography / edited by Aske Damtoft Poulsen, Arne Jönsson.
Contributors Damtoft Poulsen, Aske (editor, author)
Jönsson, Arne (editor)
Publisher Leiden
Boston : Brill
Creation Date [2021]
Notes These questions formed the backbone of a conference entitled "Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography", which took place at Lund University 11-12 January 2018--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Content Velleius Paterculus and the Battle of Actium / Roberto Cristofoli -- In short, the Republic: Florus and the (re)written Republic / Rachel Lilley Love -- Principatus ac Libertas!? Tacitus, the past and the principate of Trajan / Kai Ruffing -- "Making History": constructive wonder (aka Quellenforschung) and the composition of Caesar's Gallic War (Thanks to Labienus and Polybius) / Christopher B. Krebs -- When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, Livy (and Polybius) on the Gallic sack of Rome / Ulrike Roth -- Livy's Faliscan schoolmaster / Christina Shuttleworth Kraus -- From Thrasea Paetus to Calgacus -- or was it the other way around? an example of Tacitean intratextuality / Aske Damtoft Poulsen -- The staging of death: Tacitus' Agrippina the Younger and the dramatic turn / Rhiannon Ash -- Tiberius and tears: grief and genre / Johan Vekselius -- Migration and mobile memory in the Roman historical digression / Kyle Khellaf -- Epilogue: history in Pompeii / Anne-Marie Leander Touati.
Series Historiography of Rome and its empire, 2468-2314
volume 9
Extent xiii, 343 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)
25 cm.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2021
National Library system number 997009971869305171

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