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Title Ancient historiography and its contexts : studies in honour of A.J. Woodman / edited by Christina S. Kraus, John Marincola, Christopher Pelling
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 449 pages)
Series Oxford scholarship online
Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Classical Studies module
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
Summary 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 importance of rhetoric and rhetorical training, the skilful use of language and recurrent motifs in narrative, the use and adaptation of topoi, the importance of intertextuality, and the subtle and varied ways in which literary texts can have a contemporary resonance for their own day
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English with occasional instances of Ancient Greek and Latin
Print version record
Subject Historiography -- Rome
Latin poetry -- History and criticism
Latin poetry -- Historiography
Rhetoric, Ancient -- Historiography
HISTORY -- Ancient.
Historiography
Latin poetry
Rhetoric, Ancient -- Historiography
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.
SUBJECT Rome -- Historiography
Subject Rome (Empire)
Griechisch.
Latein.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Kraus, Christina Shuttleworth, 1958-
Marincola, John.
Pelling, C. B. R.
Woodman, A. J. (Anthony John), 1945-
ISBN 9780191574306
0191574309
9780199775552
0199775559
9780191720888
0191720887