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ISBN 13: 9780415088961
Author: David Potter
Literary Texts and the Roman Historian looks at literary texts from the Roman Empire which depict actual events. It examines the ways in which these texts were created, disseminated and read.
Beside covering the major Roman historical authors such as Livy and Tacitus, he also considers the contributions of authors in other genres like:
* Cicero
* Lucian
* Aulus Gellius.
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: Lucian and Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Fact and Presentation: Cicero
Other Forms of Presentation
Verisimilitude
Conclusion
Epilogue: The Discourse of Dominance
Appendix: Classical Authors Discussed in the Text
Bibliography
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Tags: David Potter, Literary, Roman
