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

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This volume collects essays written by colleagues and friends as a tribute to Tony Woodman, Gildersleeve Professor of Latin at the University of Virginia. These essays, like Woodman's own work, cover topics in Latin poetry, oratory, and Greek and Roman historiography. Recurrent themes are the i...

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Other Authors: Kraus, Christina Shuttleworth, 1958- (Editor), Marincola, John (Editor), Pelling, C. B. R. (Editor), Woodman, A. J. (Anthony John), 1945- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Latin
Language Notes:In English with occasional instances of Ancient Greek and Latin.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Classical Studies module.
Subjects:
Historiography > Rome.
Latin poetry > History and criticism.
Latin poetry > Historiography.
Rhetoric, Ancient > Historiography.
Rome > Historiography.
Poésie latine > Histoire et critique.
Poésie latine > Historiographie.
Rhétorique ancienne > Historiographie.
Historiographie > Rome.
HISTORY > Ancient.
Historiography
Latin poetry
Rhetoric, Ancient > Historiography
Rome (Empire)
Geschichtsschreibung
Griechisch
Latein
Literatur
Klassieke oudheid.
Geschiedschrijving.
Geschichtsschreibung > Geschichte Altertum.
Geschichtsschreibung.
Griechisch.
Latein.
Latinsk poesi > historia.
Latinsk poesi > historiografi.
Historiografi > Romerska riket.
Historiografi > antiken.
Historiografi > metodik.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Festschriften.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Author and audience
  • pt. 2. Quality and pleasure
  • pt. 3. Poetry and politics
  • pt. 4. Tacitus reviewed.
  • 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.