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The Roman Historians (Hardcover)
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The Roman Historians (Hardcover)
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The Romans' devotion to their past pervades almost every aspect of
their culture: art, poetry, law and religion. But the clearest
image of how the Romans wished to interpret their past, and define
themselves as a people, can be found in their historical writings.
It is in these works that we find momentous events in the history
of the people: Romulus' foundation of Rome; the madness of
Caligula; Nero's burning of Rome; and the Civil War of 69 AD. The
Romans did not record these events dispassionately, but their
historical writings were passionate statements linking the past and
the present. This book examines in detail the ideas and
presentation of the major Roman historians - Sallust, Livy, Tacitus
and Ammianus - as well as other genres of historical writing. The
biographies written by Nepos, Tacitus, Suetonius, and those called
the "Augustan History" and the autobiographies of Julius Caesar and
the Emperor Augustus are also analyzed to explore how these genres
differ in the Roman mind from narrative history. The author seeks
to show that Roman historical writing was regarded by its authors
as a literary, not a scholarly exercise, and how it must be
evaluated in that context.
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