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Author Valerius Maximus: 25 years after Bloomer (Conference) (2017 : University of Cape Town)

Title Reading by example : Valerius Maximus and the historiography of exempla / edited by Jeffrey Murray, David Wardle
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
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Series Historiography of Rome and its empire, 2468-2314 ; volume 11
Historiography of Rome and its empire ; .11
Contents Introduction / Jeffrey Murray -- Architecture and order. "Not putting Roman history in order?" : regal, republican and imperial boundaries / David Wardle -- And now for something completely different ... / Sarah Lawrence -- Roman history. Coriolanus as an exemplar in Valerius Maximus / John Atkinson -- Boundary issues : Valerius Maximus on Rome's Italian allies / Roman Roth -- "Others took money from that victory, but he took the glory" : spoils of war in the Facta et dicta memorabilia / Simon Lentzsch -- Forgetting Germanicus : reading Valerius Maximus through Tacitus' Tiberian books / Alain Gowing -- Values. Valerius Maximus' engagement with Cicero's Tusculan disputations on virtue and the endurance of pain, in 3.3 De patientia / Rebecca Langlands -- Amicitia and the politics of friendship in Valerius Maximus / George Baroud -- Valerius Maximus on vice / Jeffrey Murray -- Efficacior pictura : morality and the arts in Valerius Maximus / Emma Brobeck -- Reception and tradition. Valerius Maximus' Facta et dicta memorabilia and the Roman biographical tradition / Diederik Burgersdijk -- Preaching ancient history : Valerius Maximus and his manuscript reception / Kyle Conrau-Lewis
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Subject Valerius Maximus -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses
Valerius Maximus. Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX -- Congresses
Exempla in literature -- Congresses
Form Electronic book
Author Murray, Jeffrey, 1984- editor
Wardle, D., editor
E.J. Brill (Firm)
LC no. 2021038933
ISBN 9789004499423
9004499423