Format:
1 online resource (372 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789004193222
Series Statement:
Mnemosyne, Supplements Ser. v.319
Content:
This volume contains scholarly articles by professor Daniël den Hengst, in which structural and intertextual aspects of Roman historiographical texts are studied. Special attention is given to the Historia Augusta and Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae, but also relevant texts by Cicero, Livy, Quintilian and Suetonius are discussed.
Content:
Intro -- List of abbreviations -- Preface -- Chronological bibliography of Daniël den Hengst -- I Prose of the late republic and early empire -- 1 Cicero and History -- 2 Dic, Marce Tulli! Cicero's Attitude Towards the Caesarians After Caesar's Death -- 3 Memoria, thesaurus eloquentiae. The Auctor ad Herennium, Cicero and Quintilian on Mnemotechnics -- 4 The Preface to Livy's Ab urbe condita -- 5 Alexander and Rome -- 6 The Biographies of the Roman Emperors -- 7 Latin Historiography and Plutarch -- II Historia augusta -- 8 Verba, non res. Über die Inventio in den Reden und Schriftstücken in der Historia Augusta -- 9 The Author's Literary Culture -- 10 Die Poesie in der Historia Augusta. Bemerkungen zur Opiliusvita -- 11 Selbstkommentare in der Historia Augusta -- 12 Some Notes on the Vita Taciti -- 13 'The Plato of Poets': Vergil in the Historia Augusta -- 14 The Discussion of Authorship -- 15 Die Kausalkonjunktionen quod, quia und quoniam in der Historia Augusta -- 16 Review of: Histoire Auguste 4,2 Vies des deux Auréliens et des deux Galliens, ed. O. Desbordes, S. Ratti, Paris 2000 -- 17 Review of: Histoire Auguste 5,1 Vies d'Aurélien et de Tacite, ed. F. Paschoud, Paris 1996 -- 18 Review of: Histoire Auguste 5,2 Vies de Probus, Firmus, Saturninus, Proculus et Bonose, Carus, Numérien, et Carin, ed. F. Paschoud, Paris 2001? -- III Ammianus marcellinus -- 19 The Romanization of Julian -- 20 Ammianus Marcellinus on Astronomy (Res gestae 20.3) -- 21 The Scientific Digressions in Ammianus' Res gestae -- 22 Hidden Polemics: Ammianus' Digression on Egypt (Res gestae 21.15-16) -- 23 Senium Imperii -- 24 Mantuanus vates excelsus. Vergil in the Res gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus -- 25 Literary Aspects of Ammianus' Second Digression on Rome -- 26 Vir utriusque literaturae non vulgariter callens emunctaeque naris. Sur Ghelen, éditeur d'Ammien Marcellin.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004174382
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004174382
Language:
English
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