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 |
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- Prose of the Late Republic and Early Empire. Cicero and history ; Dic, Marce Tulli! Cicero's attitude towards the Caesarians after Caesar's death ; Memoria, thesaurus eloquentiae : the Auctor ad Herennium, Cicero and Quintilian on mnemotechnics ; The preface to Livy's Ab urbe condita ; Alexander and Rome ; The biographies of the Roman emperors ; Latin historiography and Plutarch
- Historia augusta. Verba, non res : über die Inventio in den Reden und Schriftstücken in der Historia augusta ; The author's literary culture ; Die Poesie in der Historia augusta : Bemerkungen zur Opiliusvita ; Selbstkommentare in der Historia augusta ; Some notes on the Vita Taciti ; The Plato of poets : Vergil in the Historia augusta ; The discussion of authorship ; Die Kausalkonjunktionen quod, quia und quoniam in der Historia augusta ; Review of : Histoire auguste 4,2 : view des deux Auréliens et des deux Galliens, ed O. Desbordes, S. Ratti, Paris 2000 ; Review of : Histoire auguste 5,1 : views d'Aurélien et de Tacite, ed. F. Paschoud, Paris 1996 ; Review of : Histoire auguste 5,2 : vies de Probus, Firmus, Saturninus, Proculus et Bonose, Carus, Numérien, et Carin, ed. F. Paschoud, Paris 2001
- Ammianus Marcellinus. The Romanization of Julian ; Ammianus Marcellinus on astronomy (Res gestae 20.3) ; The scientific digressions in Ammianus' Res gestae ; Hidden polemics : Ammianus' digression on Egypt (Res gestae 21.15-16) ; Senium Imperii ; Mantuanus vates excelsus : Vergil in the Res gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus ; Literary aspects of Ammianus' second digression on Rome ; Vir utriusque literaturae non vulgariter callens emunctaeque naris : sur Ghelen, éditeur d'Ammien Marcellin ; Vir heroicis connumerandus ingeniis : Ammianus' final verdict on the Emperor Julian ; Preparing the reader for war : Ammianus' digression on siege engines.