Sallust''s Histories and Triumviral Historiography - Confronting the End of History

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: history under the triumvirs
1 Reading the Histories
I Reading fragments
II Sallust’s triumviral world: between republic and empire
III Sallust’s approach to history
2 Analogical historiography
I Analogical historiography
II Training the reader
III Allusion, repetition, and trauma
IV Analogy and the Histories’ call to action
3 Historians in the Histories
I Who can write history?
II Sertorius: tension
III Pompey: a challenge
IV Spartacus: actor in search of auctor
V Historians in the Histories
4 Digressive digressions
I Scylla
II The Blessed Isles
III Implications
5 Triumviral historiography and the end of history
Index

About the author

Acknowledgements; Introduction: History Under the Triumvirs; Chapter One: Reading the Histories; Chapter Two: Analogical Historiography; Chapter Three: Historians in the Histories; Chapter Four: Digressive Digressions; Chapter Five: Triumviral Historiography and the End of History; Index

Summary

Sallust’s Histories and Triumviral Historiography explores the historiographical innovations of the first century Roman historian Sallust, focusing on the fragmentary Histories, an account of the turbulent years after the death of the dictator Sulla.

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"The book is well produced but it is also a book on the brink of the electronic age. Routledge has decided not only to put the notes at the end of each chapter but also a bibliography.." Christopher Smith, Sehepunkte
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Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Gerrish, Gerrish Jennifer
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781138218567
• ISBN: 978-1-138-21856-7
• No. of pages: 158
• Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History; Routledge Studies in Ancient History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Historiography, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, BCE to c 500 CE, c 1000 to c 500 BCE (Italian period of Antiquity)