The Roman Historians

Höfundur: Ronald Mellor (Útgáfa: 1)
The Roman Historians

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The Romans' devotion to their past pervades almost every aspect of their culture. But the clearest image of how the Romans wished to interpret their past is found in their historical writings. This book examines in detail the major Roman historians:* Sallust* Livy* Tacitus* Ammianusas well as the biographies written by:* Nepos* Tacitus* Suetonius* the Augustan History* the autobiographies of Julius Caesar and the Emperor Augustus.

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Útgefandi
Taylor & Francis
ISBN
9781134816514
Print ISBN
9780415117739
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Ronald Mellor
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2002-01-31
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2
Efnisflokkar
Saga › Almennt

Kaflar

  • Cover Page
  • Half Title page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Origins of Roman Historiography
  • Greek antecedents
  • Sources of the Roman past
  • Rome's first historians
  • The Latin annalists
  • Cicero's view of history
  • History in the late Republic
  • Sallust
  • Life and works
  • The Conspiracy of Catiline
  • The Jugurthine War
  • The Histories
  • Style and method in Sallust
  • Livy
  • Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City)
  • Livy's Preface
  • Livy's literary art
  • Livy's historical method
  • Livy and Augustus
  • Livy as historian
  • Tacitus
  • Life and career
  • Historical writings
  • Germania
  • Historiae
  • Annales
  • The historian's method
  • The historian as moralist
  • Political analysis
  • The historian as psychologist
  • The historian as literary artist
  • Conclusion
  • Ammianus Marcellinus
  • Life and works
  • Ammianus' historical method
  • Political and religious attitudes
  • The literary art of Ammianus
  • Conclusion
  • Roman Biography
  • Greek antecedents of Roman biography
  • Cornelius Nepos' Lives of Famous Men
  • Tacitus' Agricola
  • Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus Lives of the Twelve Caesars
  • Life and works
  • Biography versus history
  • Conclusion
  • Historia Augusta
  • The problems with the Historia Augusta
  • What is the Historia Augusta?
  • The Historia Augusta as an historical source
  • Autobiography at Rome
  • Greek antecedents
  • Hypomnema and Commentarius
  • C. Julius Caesar's Commentarii
  • Life and works
  • Gallic War
  • Civil War
  • The nature of Caesar's Commentarii
  • Conclusion
  • The autobiographies of Augustus
  • De vita sua (Autobiography of Augustus)
  • Res Gestae Divi Augusti (Achievements of the Deified Augustus )
  • Later imperial autobiography
  • Historical Writing at Rome
  • The forms of Roman history
  • The art of writing history
  • The craft of history
  • Senators as historians
  • Censorship and the suppression of history
  • The function of history
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 1 Origins of Roman historiography
  • 2 Sallust
  • 3 Livy
  • 4 Tacitus
  • 5 Ammianus Marcellinus
  • 6 Roman biography
  • Further Reading
  • Translations
  • General books
  • Origins of Roman historiography
  • Sallust
  • Livy
  • Tacitus
  • Ammianus Marcellinus
  • Biography
  • Cornelius Nepos
  • Suetonius
  • Augustan history
  • Autobiography
  • Index