Reading the Roman Republic. -- "The attaining of humane learning": education and Roman history -- Editions and translations: the publishing and circulation of Roman history -- Evidence of reading: catalogues and inventories -- Evidence of reading: commonplace books, notebooks and marginalia -- Re-imagining Rome. -- From Pharsalus to Philippi: stories of Pompey and Caesar -- "You are his heirs": Antony, Octavian and Cleopatra after the ides -- Caesar Augustus: "how happely he governed"? -- Conclusion. "[A]nother Rome in the West?"
Summary
Placing the reading of history in its cultural and educational context, and examining the processes by which ideas about ancient Rome circulated, this study provides the first assessment of the significance of Roman history, broadly conceived, in early modern England
