The Cambridge companion to the Roman historians / edited by Andrew Feldherr.

• Introduction / Andrew Feldherr -- Part I. Approaches -- 1. Ancient audiences and expectations / John Marincola -- 2. Postmodern historiographical theory and the Roman historians / William W. Batstone -- 3. Historians without history: against Roman historiography / J. E. Lendon -- Part II. Contexts and Traditions -- 4. Alternatives to written history in Republican Rome / Harriet I. Flower -- 5. Roman historians and the Greeks: audiences and models / John Dillery -- 6. Cato's Origines: the historian and his enemies / Ulrich Gotter -- 7. Polybius / James Davidson -- Part III. Subjects -- 8. Time / Denis Feeney -- 9. Space / Andrew Riggsby -- 10. Religion in historiography / Jason Davies -- 11. Virtue and violence: the historians on politics / Joy Connolly -- Part IV. Modes -- 12. The rhetoric of Roman historiography / Andrew Laird -- 13. The exemplary past in Roman historiography and culture / Matthew Roller -- 14. Intertextuality and historiography / Ellen O'Gorman -- Part V. Characters -- 15. Characterization and complexity: Caesar, Sallust, and Livy / Ann Vasaly -- 16. Representing the emperor / Caroline Vout -- 17. Women in Roman historiography / Kristina Milnor -- 18. Barbarians I: Quintus Curtius and other Roman historians' reception of Alexander / Elizabeth Baynham -- 19. Barbarians II: Tacitus' Jews / Andrew Feldherr -- Part VI. Transformations -- 20. Josephus / Honora Chapman -- 21. The Roman exempla tradition in Imperial Greek historiography: the case of Camillus / Alain M. Gowing -- 22. Ammianus Marcellinus: Tacitus' heir and Gibbon's guide / Gavin Kelly -- 23. Ancient Roman historians and early modern political theory / Benedetto Fontana -- 24. Rewriting history for the early modern stage: Racine's Roman tragedies / Volker Schröder -- 25. 'Tacitus' Syme': the Roman historians and twentieth-century approaches to Roman history / Emma Dench.

Ämnesord

Historiography  -- Rome. (LCSH)

Historians  -- Rome -- Biography. (LCSH)

Historiografi  -- Romerska riket (sao)

Rome  -- Historiography. (LCSH)

Rome  -- History. (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

K:k.264 Historieforskningens historia: romerska kejsartiden 31 f Kr - 476 e Kr

Klassifikation

DG205 (LCC)

937.0072 (DDC)

K:k.264 (kssb/8)