Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-413) and indexes.
Contents:
Annals 4.37-8 / Narrative and speech problems in Thucydides book I / Christopher Pelling. Divide and conquer : Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7 / Christina Shuttleworth Kraus ; Scipio the Matchmaker / Jane D. Chaplin ; Velleius Mythistoricus / T.P. Wiseman -- Quality and pleasure. Romani ueteres atque urbani sales : a note on Cicero De Oratore 2.262 and Lucilius 173M / Anna Chahoud ; Allusion and contrast in the letters of Nicias (thuc. 7.11-15) and Pompey (Sall. Hist. 2.98M) Elizabeth A. Meyer ; Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy on the Horatii and the Curiatii / S.P. Oakley ; Amores 1.1-5 / David West ; Rome and Persia 357-9 : the role of Tamsapor / Robin Seager -- Poetry and politics. Munera uestra cano : the poet, the gods, and the thematic unity of Georgics 1 / Damien Nelis -- Eros and empire : Virgil and the historians on Civil War / John Marincola ; Fathers and sons : the Manlii Torquati and family continuity in Catullus and Horace / Denis Feeney ; Juvenal and the Delatores / J.G.F. Powell ; Roma and her tutelary deity : names and ancient evidence / Francis Cairns -- Tacitus reviewed. Seven passages of the Annals (and one of Manilus) / Edward Courtney ; The great escape : Tacitus on the mutiny of the Usipi (Agricola 28) ; Pompeius Trogus in Tacitus' Annals / David Levene ; voices of resistance / Richard Rutherford ; The art of losing : Tacitus and the disaster narrative / Elizabeth Keitel ; The historian's presence, or, there and back again / Cynthia Damon ; The spur of fame : Annals 4.37-8 / Christopher Pelling.
Summary:
This collection of studies on ancient poetry and historiography pays tribute to the distinguished classicist Tony Woodman. It focuses on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of the literature on illuminating the historical Roman context, and the historical context to illuminate the literature.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.