Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (Historiography of Rome and Its Empire, 9)

Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography contains 11 articles on how the Ancient Roman historians used, and manipulated, the past. Key themes include the impact of autocracy, the nature of intertextuality, and the frontiers between history and other genres. Contents 6 Preface 8 Notes on Contributors 10 References and Abbreviations 15 Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series 16 Introduction: Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography 18 Part 1 Coming to Terms with the Principate 40 Chapter 1 Velleius Paterculus and the Battle of Actium 42 Chapter 2 In Short, the Republic: Florus and the (Re)Written Republic 57 Chapter 3 Principatus ac Libertas!? Tacitus, the Past and the Principate of Trajan 86 Part 2 Intertextuality and Intratextuality 106 Chapter 4 “Making History”: Constructive Wonder (aka Quellenforschung) and the Composition of Caesar’s Gallic War (Thanks to Labienus and Polybius) 108 Chapter 5 When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes ... Livy (and Polybius) on the Gallic Sack of Rome 132 Chapter 6 Livy’s Faliscan Schoolmaster 163 Chapter 7 From Thrasea Paetus to Calgacus – or Was It the Other Way Around? An Example of Tacitean Intratextuality 186 Part 3 The Frontiers of Historiography 212 Chapter 8 The Staging of Death: Tacitus’ Agrippina the Younger and the Dramatic Turn 214 Chapter 9 Tiberius and Tears: Grief and Genre 242 Chapter 10 Migration and Mobile Memory in the Roman Historical Digression 279 Chapter 11 Epilogue: History in Pompeii 315 Index Nominum et Rerum 344 Index Locorum 352 "Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography contains 11 articles on how the Ancient Roman historians used, and manipulated, the past. What did they seek to accomplish by participating in its re-creation, what tools did they have at their disposal to do so, and which underlying conceptualisations of history can we glimpse behind their efforts? Key themes include the impact of the transformation from Republic to Empire on the production of history, the nature of intertextuality in historical writing, and the frontiers between history and other literary genres. The volume, edited by Aske Damtoft Poulsen and Arne Jönsson, encompasses diverse approaches to the study of Roman history and historiography, with contributors from the UK, US, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, and Italy. Contributors are: Rhiannon Ash, Roberto Cristofoli, Aske Damtoft Poulsen, Kyle Khellaf, Christopher B. Krebs, Christina Shuttleworth Kraus, Anne-Marie Leander Touati, Rachel Lilley Love, Ulrike Roth, Kai Ruffing & Johan Vekselius"-- Provided by publisher