Literary Texts and the Roman Historian (Approaching the Ancient World) - Hardcover

Potter, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041508895X ISBN 13: 9780415088954

Verlag: Routledge, 1999

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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.
Literary Texts and the Roman Historian provides an accessible and concise introduction to the complexities of Roman historiography.

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David S. Potter is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. he is the author of prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire (1990) and Prophets and Emperors: Human and Divine Authority from Augustus to Theodosius (1993)

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 041508895X
• ISBN 13: 9780415088954
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228
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