Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians
This book is an introduction to how the history of Rome was written in the ancient world, and its impact on later periods. It presents essays by an international team of scholars that aim both to orient non-specialist readers to the important concerns of the Roman historians and to stimulate new research.
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No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationship between literature and its political contexts have ensured that the works of historians such as Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus will be read as texts with the same interest and sophistication as they are used as sources. Topics central to the entire tradition, such as conceptions of time, characterization, and depictions of politics and the gods, are treated synoptically, while other essays highlight the works of less familiar historians, such as Curtius Rufus and Ammianus Marcellinus. A final section focuses on the rich reception history of Roman historiography, from the ancient Greek historians of Rome to the twentieth century. An appendix offers a chronological list of the ancient historians of Rome.
List of illustrations xList of contributors xiPreface and acknowledgments xvList of abbreviations xviiIntroduction Andrew Feldherr 1Part I Approaches 91 Ancient audiences and expectations John Marincola 112 Postmodern historiographical theory and the Roman historians William W. Batstone 243 Historians without history: Against Roman historiography J.E. Lendon 41Part II Contexts and Traditions 634 Alternatives to written history in Republican Rome Harriet I. Flower 655 Roman historians and the Greeks: Audiences and models John Dillery 776 Cato's Origines: The historian and his enemies Ulrich Gotter 1087 Polybius James Davidson 123Part III Subjects 1378 Time Denis Feeney 1399 Space Andrew M. Riggsby 15210 Religion in historiography Jason Davies 16611 Virtue and violence: The historians on politics Joy Connolly 181Part IV Modes 19512 The rhetoric of Roman historiography Andrew Laird 19713 The exemplary past in Roman historiography and culture Matthew Roller 21414 Intertextuality and historiography Ellen O'Gorman 231Part v Characters 24315 Characterization and complexity: Caesar, Sallust, and Livy Ann Vasaly 24516 Representing the emperor Caroline Vout 26117 Women in Roman historiography Kristina Milnor 27618 Barbarians I: Quintus Curtius' and other Roman historians' reception of Alexander Elizabeth Baynham 28819 Barbarians II: Tacitus' Jews Andrew Feldherr 301Part VI Transformations 31720 Josephus Honora Chapman 31921 The Roman exempla tradition in imperial Greek historiography: The case of Camillus Alain M. Gowing 33222 Ammianus Marceilinus: Tacitus' heir andGibbon's guide Gavin Kelly 34823 Ancient Roman historians and early modern political theory Benedetto Fontana 36224 Re-writing history for the early modern stage: Racine's Roman tragedies Volker Schröder 38025 The Roman historians and twentieth-century approaches to Roman history Emma Dench 394Chronological list of the historians of Rome 407Bibliography 418Index 455
