Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts : Studies in Honour of A. J. Woodman

## Abstract This volume collects essays written by colleagues and friends as a tribute to Tony Woodman, Gildersleeve Professor of Latin at the University of Virginia. These essays, like Woodman's own work, cover topics in Latin poetry, oratory, and Greek and Roman historiography. Recurrent themes are the importance of rhetoric and rhetorical training, the skilful use of language and recurrent motifs in narrative, the use and adaptation of topoi, the importance of intertextuality, and the subtle and varied ways in which literary texts can have a contemporary resonance for their own day. Contents......Page 8 List of Contributors......Page 10 Abbreviations......Page 13 Introduction......Page 16 PART I: AUTHOR AND AUDIENCE......Page 28 1. Narrative and Speech Problems in Thucydides Book I......Page 30 2. Divide and Conquer: Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7......Page 55 3. Scipio the Matchmaker......Page 75 4. Velleius Mythistoricus......Page 88 PART II: QUALITY AND PLEASURE......Page 100 5. Romani ueteres atque urbani sales: A Note on Cicero De Oratore 2.262 and Lucilius 173M......Page 102 6. Allusion and Contrast in the Letters of Nicias (Thuc. 7.11–15) and Pompey (Sall. Hist. 2.98M)......Page 112 7. Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy on the Horatii and the Curiatii......Page 133 8. Amores 1.1–5......Page 154 9. Rome and Persia 357–9: The Role of Tamsapor......Page 170 PART III: POETRY AND POLITICS......Page 178 10. Munera uestra cano: The Poet, the Gods, and the Thematic Unity of Georgics 1......Page 180 11. Eros and Empire: Virgil and the Historians on Civil War......Page 198 12. Fathers and Sons: The Manlii Torquati and Family Continuity in Catullus and Horace......Page 220 13. Juvenal and the Delatores......Page 239 14. Roma and Her Tutelary Deity: Names and Ancient Evidence......Page 260 PART IV: TACITUS REVIEWED......Page 282 15. Seven Passages of the Annals (and One of Manilius)......Page 284 16. The Great Escape: Tacitus on the Mutiny of the Usipi......Page 290 17. Pompeius Trogus in Tacitus’ Annals......Page 309 18. Voices of Resistance......Page 327 19. The Art of Losing: Tacitus and the Disaster Narrative......Page 346 20. The Historian’s Presence, or, There and Back Again......Page 368 21. The Spur of Fame: Annals 4.37–8......Page 379 Bibliography......Page 400 Index Locorum......Page 430 B......Page 457 C......Page 458 G......Page 459 M......Page 460 P......Page 461 S......Page 462 V......Page 463 Z......Page 464 This is a collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, concentrating especially on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of considering the literature to illuminate the historical Roman context and the historical context to illuminate the literature. It takes the form of a tribute to Tony Woodman, Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, for whom twenty-one scholars have contributed essays reflecting the interests and approaches that have typified Woodman's own work. The authors that he has continuously illuminated - especially Velleius, Horace, Virgil, Sallust, and Tacitus - figure particularly prominently. This is a collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, concentrating especially on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of considering the literature to illuminate the historical Roman context and the historical context to illuminate the literature. It takes the form of a tribute to Tony Woodman, Gildersleeve Professor of Latin at the University of Virginia, for whom twenty-one scholars have contributed essays reflecting the interests and approaches that have typified Woodman's own work. The authors that he has continuously illuminated - especially Velleius, Horace, Virgil, Sallust, and Tacitus - figure particularly prominently. This Collection Of Studies On Ancient Poetry And Historiography Pays Tribute To The Distinguished Classicist Tony Woodman. It Focuses On The Impact Of Rhetoric On Both Genres, And On The Importance Of The Literature On Illuminating The Historical Roman Context, And The Historical Context To Illuminate The Literature. Edited By Christina S. Kraus, John Marincola, And Christopher Pelling. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.