Emperors and Historiography - Mnemosyne Suppl. 319

Informationen zum Autor Diederik W.P. Burgersdijk , Ph.D. (2009) teaches classical languages at Barlaeusgymnasium, Amsterdam, and is guest researcher at the University of Amsterdam. He is presently working on a study of style and structure of the Historia Augusta . Joop A. van Waarden , Ph.D. (2009) is a former headmaster of Bonhoeffer College in Castricum and guest researcher at the University of Amsterdam. His study of the episcopal letters in the seventh book of Sidonius Apollinaris' correspondence will be published in 2010. Klappentext This volume contains scholarly articles by professor DaniAl den Hengst, in which structural and intertextual aspects of Roman historiographical texts are studied. Special attention is given to the "Historia Augusta" and Ammianus Marcellinus' "Res Gestae," but also relevant texts by Cicero, Livy, Quintilian and Suetonius are discussed.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel den Hengst
• Assisted by: Burgersdijk (Editor), Diederik Burgersdijk (Editor), Joop Waarden (Editor), Joop van Waarden (Editor), van Waarden (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.11.2009
• EAN: 9789004174382
• ISBN: 978-90-0-417438-2
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 248 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements; Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book