The Cambridge Companion to the Roman historians/
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Cambridge New York:
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2009
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Andrew Feldherr; Part I. Approaches: 1. Ancient audiences and expectations / John Marincola; 2. Postmodern historiographical theory and the Roman historians / William W. Batstone; 3. Historians without history: against Roman historiography / J. E. Lendon; Part II. Contexts and Traditions: 4. Alternatives to written history in Republican Rome / Harriet I. Flower; 5. Roman historians and the Greeks: audiences and models / John Dillery; 6. Catoʹs Origines: the historian and his enemies / Ulrich Gotter; 7. Polybius / James Davidson; Part III. Subjects: 8. Time / Denis Feeney; 9. Space / Andrew Riggsby; 10. Religion in historiography / Jason Davies; 11. Virtue and violence: the historians on politics / Joy Connelly; Part IV. Modes: 12. The rhetoric of Roman historiography / Andrew Laird; 13. The exemplary past in Roman historiography and culture / Matthew Roller; 14. Intertextuality and historiography / Ellen OʹGorman; Part V. Characters: 15. Characterization and complexity: Caesar, Sallust, and Livy / Ann Vasaly; 16. Representing the emperor / Caroline Vout; 17. Women in Roman historiography / Kristina Milnor; 18. Barbarians I: Quintus Curtius and other Roman historiansʹ reception of Alexander / Elizabeth Baynham; 19. Barbarians II: Tacitusʹ Jews / Andrew Feldherr; Part VI. Transformations: 20. Josephus / Honora Chapman; 21. The Roman exempla tradition in Imperial Greek historiography: the case of Camillus / Alain M. Gowing; 22. Ammianus Marcellinus: Tacitusʹ heir and Gibbonʹs guide / Gavin Kelly; 23. Ancient Roman historians and early modern political theory / Benedetto Fontana; 24. Rewriting history for the early modern stage: Racineʹs Roman tragedies / Volker Schro?der; 25. Τhe Roman historians and twentieth-century approaches to Roman history / Emma Dench.