Literary Texts and the Roman Historian

Literary Texts and the Roman Historian provides an accessible and concise introduction to the complexities of Roman historiography.

List of contents

Definitions: Historia as Enquiry, Historia as Story, Truth and History, Some Rules, Texts: Sorting Things Out, Participant Evidence, Publication and Literary Fashion, Illustrative Evidence, Narrative, Reconstructing Fragmentary Authors, Scholarship: Standards of Research, Historians and Records, Quellenforschung, Near Eastern Records of the Past and the Roman Imagination, Grammarians and Historians, The Physical Process, Conclusion, Presentation: The Problem, Leopold Ranke, Objectivism and relativism, Fact and Presentation: Lucien and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Fact and Presentation: Cicero, Other Forms of Presentation, Versimilitude, Conclusion, Epilogue: The Discourse of Dominance, Appendix: Classical Authors Discussed in the Text, Bibliography.

About the author

David S. Potter is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. he is the author of prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire (1990) and Prophets and Emperors: Human and Divine Authority from Augustus to Theodosius (1993)

Summary

Literary Texts and the Roman Historian provides an accessible and concise introduction to the complexities of Roman historiography.

Product details

• Authors: David Potter
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.1999
• EAN: 9780415088954
• ISBN: 978-0-415-08895-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: Approaching the Ancient World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval