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The Cambridge companion to the Roman historians / edited by Andrew Feldherr.
| Other author | Feldherr, Andrew, 1963- |
| Other author | Cambridge University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, |
| Description | xviii, 464 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ProQuest One Literature - U.S. Customers Only |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Cambridge Companions |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Companion to the Roman historians |
| Portion of title | Roman historians |
| Series | Cambridge companions to literature |
| Contents | Introduction / Andrew Feldherr -- Ancient audiences and expectations / John Marincola -- Postmodern historiographical theory and the Roman historians / William W. Batstone -- Historians without history : against Roman historiography / J.E. Lendon -- Alternatives to written history in Republican Rome / Harriet I. Flower -- Roman historians and the Greeks : audiences and models / John Dillery -- Cato's Origines : the historian and his enemies / Ulrich Gotter -- Polybius / James Davidson -- Time / Denis Feeney -- Space / Andrew M. Riggsby -- Religion in historiography / Jason Davies -- Virtue and violence : the historians on politics / Joy Connolly -- The rhetoric of Roman historiography / Andrew Laird -- The exemplary past in Roman historiography and culture / Matthew Roller -- Intertextuality and historiography / Ellen O'Gorman -- Characterization and complexity : Caesar, Sallust, and Livy / Ann Vasaly -- Representing the emperor / Caroline Vout -- Women in Roman historiography / Kristina Milnor -- Barbarians I : Quintus Curtius' and other Roman historians' reception of Alexander / Elizabeth Baynham -- Barbarians II : Tacitus' Jews / Andrew Feldherr -- Josephus / Honora Chapman -- The Roman exempla tradition in imperial Greek historiography : the case of Camillus / Alain M. Gowing -- Ammianus Marcellinus : Tacitus' heir and Gibbon's guide / Gavin Kelly -- Ancient Roman historians and early modern political theory / Benedetto Fontana -- Re-writing history for the early modern stage : Racine's Roman tragedies / Volker Schröder -- The Roman historians and twentieth-century approaches to Roman history / Emma Dench. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 418-454) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009009346 |
| ISBN | 9780521854535 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0521854539 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780521670937 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0521670934 (pbk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |