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Emperors and historiography : collected essays on the literature of the Roman Empire by Daniël den Hengst /
In this collection of essays Roman historical and biographical texts are studied from a literary point of view. The main interest of the author, Daniel den Hengst, professor emeritus of Latin at the University of Amsterdam, concerns the development of Roman historiography, the ways in which Roman hi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán Francés Latín Griego Antiguo |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
319. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this collection of essays Roman historical and biographical texts are studied from a literary point of view. The main interest of the author, Daniel den Hengst, professor emeritus of Latin at the University of Amsterdam, concerns the development of Roman historiography, the ways in which Roman historians present their work and the intertextual relations between these works and other literary genres. Special attention is given to the Historia Augusta and Ammianus Marcellinus, but also authors from the classical period, such as Cicero, Livy and Suetonius and their ideas about historiography a. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 362 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-344) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789004193222 9004193227 |
| ISSN: | 0169-8958 ; |