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Author Mellor, Ronald

Title The Roman historians / Ronald Mellor
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (x, 212 pages)
Contents Origins of Roman historiography -- Sallust -- Livy -- Tacitus -- Ammianus Marcellinus -- Roman biography -- Autobiography at Rome -- Historical writing at Rome
Summary The Roman Historians provides a clear survey and a critical analysis of five centuries of historical writing in and about ancient Rome. The book examines authors of various historical genres - narrative, biography, and autobiography - and places them within the political and social framework of the late Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. Since Roman historiography is an extension of political conflict and moral discourse, all these writings are examined within the context of Roman public life
This book illuminates how and why Roman authors told the stories of their past. All Roman historical writing is highly political and deeply moral, and we see here how the political experience and moral vision of the historian shape the historical narrative and intimately inform the content, the rhetoric, and the literary style of the history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-204) and index
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Subject Historians -- Rome -- Biography
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
Historians
Historiography
Geschichtsschreibung
Historici.
Romeinse oudheid.
Historiens -- Rome -- Biographies.
SUBJECT Rome -- Historiography
Rome -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115108
Subject Rome (Empire)
Römisches Reich
Rome -- Historiographie.
Rome -- Histoire.
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781134816521
1134816529
0203047265
9780203047262