The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians

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THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO: THE ROMAN HISTORIANS
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
CONTRIBUTORS
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
Introduction
Part I: Approaches
	1 Ancient audiences and expectations
		History’s audience
		Generic expectations
			Orientation
			Truth
			Praise and blame
			The ‘movement’ of history
		Conclusion
		Further reading
	2 Postmodern historiographical theory and the Roman historians
		Postmodern historiography: basics
		Postmodernism and the Roman historians
		Metanarratives: Sallust and the purpose of history
		The past as monument: Livy
		The media event: What Crassus did in Sallust
		Objectivity and the event: What Caesar did in Caesar
		Closure and the event: the end of Catiline
		Further reading
	3 Historians without history: Against Roman historiography
		Further reading
Part II: Contexts and traditions
	4 Alternatives to written history in Republican Rome
		Further reading
	5 Roman historians and the Greeks: Audiences and models
		Earliest Roman historiography, i: Greek and Fabius Pictor
		Earliest Roman historiography, ii: Latin and Cato Maior
		Conclusion: Bilingualism and early Roman historians
		Further reading
	6 Cato’s Origines: The historian and his enemies
		Further reading
	7 Polybius
		Life and works
		Between Greece and Rome
		The Histories
			Discursiveness and metahistoriography
			Gaze and metahistory
		Further reading
Part III: Subjects
	8 Time
		Working without BCE/CE
		“Absolute” vs. “relative” time
		Time in the first Roman historians
		Years taking their names from the consul
		Deforming the time of history
		Further reading
	9 Space
		Definition of terms
		Spatial inventories
		The bigger picture
		Moving through space and time
		Inside the city
		Further reading
	10 Religion in historiography
		Further reading
			Roman religion
			Religion in Literature
	11 Virtue and violence: The historians on politics
		Defining civic virtue
		Violence and the political community
		Conclusion
		Further reading
Part IV: Modes
	12 The rhetoric of Roman historiography
		I
		II
		III
		Further reading
	13 The exemplary past in Roman historiography and culture
		Further reading
	14 Intertextuality and historiography
		Further reading
Part V: Characters
	15 Characterization and complexity: Caesar, Sallust, and Livy
		Caesar’s Ariovistus
		Sallust’s Catiline
		Appius Claudius Decemvir in Livy’s first pentad
		Further reading
	16 Representing the emperor
		Emperor as image
		Looking the part
		Vision and revision
		Appearance is everything
		Further reading
	17 Women in Roman historiography
		Further reading
	18 Barbarians i: Quintus Curtius’ and other Roman historians’ reception of Alexander
		Further reading
	19 Barbarians ii: Tacitus’ Jews
		Further reading
Part VI: Transformations
	20 Josephus
		Introduction
		Priest, general, historian
		Reception history and the field of classics
		New approaches to and uses of the texts
		Conclusion
		Further reading
	21 The Roman exempla tradition in imperial Greek historiography: The case of Camillus
		The exempla tradition
		Camillus: a Roman exemplum for Greeks?
		Veii
		Faliscan schoolmaster
		Exile
		The Tusculan campaign of 381 and the Gallic campaign of 367
		Conclusion
		Further reading
	22 Ammianus Marcellinus: Tacitus’ heir and Gibbon’s guide
		The heir of Tacitus
		Gibbon’s accurate and faithful guide
		The manipulative historian
		Further reading
	23 Ancient Roman historians and early modern political theory
		Machiavelli and Hobbes
		Montesquieu
		Further reading
	24 Re-writing history for the early modern stage: Racine’s Roman tragedies
		Imitation, emulation, invention
		Adaptation
		Politics of exemplarity
		Further reading
	25 The Roman historians and twentieth-century approaches to Roman history
		The Great Divide?
		The ancient historian and his materials
		Crossing the divide
		Small worlds
		Conclusion
		Further reading
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE HISTORIANS OF ROME
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX