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Vorwort Velleius Paterculus' short work is the earliest surviving attempt on the part of a post-Augustan historian to survey the history of the res publica from its origins to his own times. In a period from which no other contemporary historical narrative survives in more than meagre fragments, Velleius' work is uniquely important. Zusammenfassung Velleius Paterculus' short work is the earliest surviving attempt on the part of a post-Augustan historian to survey the history of the res publica from its origins to his own times. In a period from which no other contemporary historical narrative survives in more than meagre fragments, Velleius' work is uniquely important. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction (Eleanor Cowan) Velleius Paterculus as Senator. A dream with footnotes (Barbara Levick) A page in the history of Campania (Maria Elefante Velleius Paterculus and his Italian background (Edward Bispham) Transit admiratio: memoria, invidia, and the historian (Martin Bloomer) Velleius' history: genre and models (John Rich) Explanatory strategies in Velleius (John Marincola) Velleius 2.30.6 and Tacitus, Histories 4.81: allusion and intertext (Victoria Pagan) Velleius and biography: the case of Julius Caesar (Christopher Pelling) Roman values in Velleius (Ulrich Schmitzer) Resuscitating a text: Velleius' history as cultural evidence (John Lobur) Velleius 2.124.2 and the reluctant princeps (Tom Hillard) 'Dying with their boots on': ambivalence in Velleius' depiction of republican notables (Clemence Schultze) The Stones of Blood: Family, Monumentality, and Memory in Velleius' Second Century (Luke Pitcher) Heroism and Despair in Velleius Paterculus' narrative of the Republic (Catherine Steel) Velleius and the Games (T.P. Wiseman) Velleius and Pompey: ambiguities and contradictions (Robin Seager) Velleius Paterculus' portrait of Livia (Kathryn Welch) Velleius and the princeps Romani nominis (Eleanor Cowan)...
