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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2010
      September 2009
      ISBN:
      9781139002714
      9780521854535
      9780521670937
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521854535
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.88kg, 488 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.77kg, 488 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, English Literature: General Interest
      Collection:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, English Literature: General Interest
    Collection:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    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 of less familiar historians, such as Curtius Rufus and Ammianus Marcellinus. A final section focuses on the rich reception history of Roman historiography, from the ancient Greek historians of Rome to the twentieth century. An appendix offers a chronological list of the ancient historians of Rome.

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