Livy

Informationen zum Autor Jane D. Chaplin is Professor of Classics at Middlebury College.Christina S. Kraus is Professor of Classics at Yale University. Klappentext Eighteen important recent essays on the work of Livy, which together present a picture of this creative and acutely observant historian writing during the Augustan principate. An Introduction summarizes previous scholarship and contextualizes each essay; and each is followed by an addendum and suggestions for further reading. Zusammenfassung Eighteen important recent essays on the work of Livy, which together present a picture of this creative and acutely observant historian writing during the Augustan principate. An Introduction summarizes previous scholarship and contextualizes each essay; and each is followed by an addendum and suggestions for further reading. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I. Outlook 1: T. J. Luce: The Dating of Livy's First Decade 2: J. L. Moles: Livy's Preface II. Structure 3: P. A. Stadter: The Structure of Livy's History 4: J. Rich: Structuring Roman History: the Consular Year and the Roman Historical Tradition 5: T. J. Luce: Design and Structure in Livy: 5.32-55 III. Language and Style 6: L. Catin: Comedy, Wit, and Humour in Livy 7: P. G. Walsh: Literary Techniques of Livy 8: A. H. McDonald: The Style of Livy 9: J. E. Phillips: Form and Language in Livy's Triumph Notices IV. Narrative 10: E. Burck: An Introduction to Books 29 and 30 11: J. E. Solodow: Livy and the Story of Horatius I.24-26 12: A. C. Scafuro: Livy's Comic Narrative of the Bacchanalia V. Cultural History 13: W. Liebeschuetz: The Religious Position of Livy's History 14: S. R. Joshel: The Body Female and the Body Politic: Livy's Lucretia and Verginia 15: A. M. Feldherr: Livy's Revolution: Civic Identity and the Creation of the res publica VI. Sources and Working Methods 16: S. P. Oakley: Livy and his Sources 17: J. Briscoe: Livy's Sources and Methods of Composition in Books 31-33 18: H. Trankle: Livy and Polybius ...

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• Authors: Jane D. Chaplin, Jane D. (EDT)/ Kraus Chaplin
• Assisted by: Jane D. Chaplin (Editor), Chaplin Jane D. (Editor), Christina S. Kraus (Editor), Christina Shuttleworth Kraus (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2008
• EAN: 9780199286331
• ISBN: 978-0-19-928633-1
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies; Oxford Readings in Classical S; Oxford Readings in Classical Studies; Oxford Readings in Classical S
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval