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- catalog abstract "Throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Valerius Maximus' Memorable Deeds and Sayings was the most widely read prose after the Bible, but the work's vision of ancient history and its author's literary style have since fallen into disrepute. Martin Bloomer revives the classic to examine how, why, and for whom Valerius Maximus composed this collection of rhetorical examples. Designed to influence the most esteemed of public art forms in Tiberian Rome - declamation - Valerius' work expresses the concerns and anxieties of literate first-century Romans. At the same time it creates paradigms for a new culture, according to Bloomer. While offering contemporaries a handbook of Roman speech, Valerius' work affords later scholars unique insights into the hierarchy of values, behavior, and ethics in Tiberian Rome. Bloomer addresses the peculiar qualities of Valerius' composition and systematically examines his use of sources such as Livy and Cicero. He also considers Valerius' handling of the most delicate and dangerous of all material for the imperial historian - the Roman civil wars and the ascendancy of the Caesars. Valerius emerges not as the beginning of the end of Latin letters but as a crucial and fascinating index to the declamatory culture of Tiberian Rome.".
- catalog alternative "Valerius Maximus and the rhetoric of the new nobility.".
- catalog contributor b3793612.
- catalog coverage "Rome History Republic, 265 B.C.-30 B.C. Historiography.".
- catalog coverage "Rome History Republic, 265-30 B.C. Historiography.".
- catalog coverage "Rome History Tiberius, 14-37 Historiography.".
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-268) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Part I: Introduction -- Part II: Audience and design -- The proem and Valerius' audience -- The organization of the collection -- The process of arrangement -- Part III: Sources and reading -- Reading, writing, and "originality," -- Margins of reading: the individual sources -- Conclusions -- Valerian historiography: the case of the civil wars -- Valerius' explicit judgments -- Valerian overviews -- Chapters of civil strife -- Part V: The fallen restored and the republic's restorers -- The opponents of Julius Caesar -- The caesars -- Part VI: Valerian rhetoric and ideology -- Diction -- Word order -- Phrasing and colometry -- Figuration.".
- catalog description "Throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Valerius Maximus' Memorable Deeds and Sayings was the most widely read prose after the Bible, but the work's vision of ancient history and its author's literary style have since fallen into disrepute. Martin Bloomer revives the classic to examine how, why, and for whom Valerius Maximus composed this collection of rhetorical examples. Designed to influence the most esteemed of public art forms in Tiberian Rome - declamation - Valerius' work expresses the concerns and anxieties of literate first-century Romans. At the same time it creates paradigms for a new culture, according to Bloomer. While offering contemporaries a handbook of Roman speech, Valerius' work affords later scholars unique insights into the hierarchy of values, behavior, and ethics in Tiberian Rome. Bloomer addresses the peculiar qualities of Valerius' composition and systematically examines his use of sources such as Livy and Cicero. He also considers Valerius' handling of the most delicate and dangerous of all material for the imperial historian - the Roman civil wars and the ascendancy of the Caesars. Valerius emerges not as the beginning of the end of Latin letters but as a crucial and fascinating index to the declamatory culture of Tiberian Rome.".
- catalog extent "vi, 287 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Valerius Maximus & the rhetoric of the new nobility.".
- catalog identifier "0807820474 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Valerius Maximus & the rhetoric of the new nobility.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Valerius Maximus & the rhetoric of the new nobility.".
- catalog spatial "Rome History Republic, 265 B.C.-30 B.C. Historiography.".
- catalog spatial "Rome History Republic, 265-30 B.C. Historiography.".
- catalog spatial "Rome History Tiberius, 14-37 Historiography.".
- catalog spatial "Rome.".
- catalog subject "937/.02/072 20".
- catalog subject "Authors and readers Rome.".
- catalog subject "Didactic literature, Latin History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Exempla in literature.".
- catalog subject "Nobility Rome.".
- catalog subject "PA6791.V7 B58 1992".
- catalog subject "Rhetoric, Ancient.".
- catalog subject "Valerius Maximus. Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I: Introduction -- Part II: Audience and design -- The proem and Valerius' audience -- The organization of the collection -- The process of arrangement -- Part III: Sources and reading -- Reading, writing, and "originality," -- Margins of reading: the individual sources -- Conclusions -- Valerian historiography: the case of the civil wars -- Valerius' explicit judgments -- Valerian overviews -- Chapters of civil strife -- Part V: The fallen restored and the republic's restorers -- The opponents of Julius Caesar -- The caesars -- Part VI: Valerian rhetoric and ideology -- Diction -- Word order -- Phrasing and colometry -- Figuration.".
- catalog title "Valerius Maximus & the rhetoric of the new nobility / W. Martin Bloomer.".
- catalog title "Valerius Maximus and the rhetoric of the new nobility.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".