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The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians
Andrew (Ed Feldherr
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Paperback. An introduction to how the history of Rome was written in the ancient world, and its impact on later periods. Editor(s): Feldherr, Andrew. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 488 pages, 4 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DSBB; HBAH; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 665. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 488 pages, 4 b/w illus. Editor(s): Feldherr, Andrew. A 2009 introduction to how the history of Rome was written in the ancient world, and its impact on later periods. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DSBB; HBAH; HBLA1. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 22. Weight: 656.
No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationship between literature and its political contexts have ensured that the works of historians such as Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus will be read as texts with the same interest and sophistication as they are used as sources. In this book, topics central to the entire tradition, such as conceptions of time, characterization, and depictions of politics and the gods, are treated synoptically, while other essays highlight the works ... Read more
No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationship between literature and its political contexts have ensured that the works of historians such as Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus will be read as texts with the same interest and sophistication as they are used as sources. In this book, topics central to the entire tradition, such as conceptions of time, characterization, and depictions of politics and the gods, are treated synoptically, while other essays highlight the works ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
488
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Condition
New
Weight
693g
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521670937
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V9780521670937
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About Andrew (Ed Feldherr
Andrew Feldherr is Professor of Classics at Princeton University, New Jersey. He is also the author of Spectacle and Society in Livy's History (1998) and Playing Gods: The Politics of Fiction in Ovid's Metamorphoses (forthcoming).
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