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- catalog abstract "Literary Texts and the Roman Historian focuses on the problems and methods involved in reconstructing the history of the ancient world. David Potter examines the different kinds of text from which Roman history is reconstructed by modern students, and he explores how ancient participants in the literary culture of the Roman empire constructed their own history. In contrast, he also discusses alternative forms of historical narrative, suggesting that those texts were produced to provide alternative paradigms to those offered in the traditional historical narratives. Literary Texts and the Roman Historian provides an accessible and concise introduction to the complexities of Roman historiography which will be invaluable to students of all periods of history.".
- catalog contributor b10954379.
- catalog coverage "Rome Historiography.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-211) and index.".
- catalog description "Literary Texts and the Roman Historian focuses on the problems and methods involved in reconstructing the history of the ancient world. David Potter examines the different kinds of text from which Roman history is reconstructed by modern students, and he explores how ancient participants in the literary culture of the Roman empire constructed their own history. In contrast, he also discusses alternative forms of historical narrative, suggesting that those texts were produced to provide alternative paradigms to those offered in the traditional historical narratives. Literary Texts and the Roman Historian provides an accessible and concise introduction to the complexities of Roman historiography which will be invaluable to students of all periods of history.".
- catalog description "Part I: Definitions -- Historia as inquiry, historia as story -- Truth and history -- Some rules -- Part II: Texts -- Sorting things out -- Participant evidence -- Publication and literary fashion -- Illustrative evidence -- Narrative -- Reconstructing fragmentary authors -- Part III: Scholarship -- Standards of research -- Historians and records -- Quellenforschung -- Near Eastern records of the past and the Roman imagination -- Grammarians and historians -- The physical process -- Part IV: Presentation -- The problem -- Leopold von Ranke -- Objectivism and relativism -- Fact and presentation: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Lucian -- Fact and presentation: Cicero -- Other forms of presentation -- Verisimilitude -- Epilogue: the discourse of dominance? -- Appendix: classical authors discussed in the text.".
- catalog extent "x, 218 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Literary texts and the Roman historian.".
- catalog identifier "041508895X".
- catalog identifier "0415088968 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Literary texts and the Roman historian.".
- catalog isPartOf "Approaching the ancient world".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog relation "Literary texts and the Roman historian.".
- catalog spatial "Rome Historiography.".
- catalog spatial "Rome.".
- catalog subject "870.9/358 21".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Ancient, in literature.".
- catalog subject "History, Ancient Historiography.".
- catalog subject "Latin literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature and history Rome.".
- catalog subject "PA6021 .P68 1999".
- catalog subject "Rhetoric, Ancient.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I: Definitions -- Historia as inquiry, historia as story -- Truth and history -- Some rules -- Part II: Texts -- Sorting things out -- Participant evidence -- Publication and literary fashion -- Illustrative evidence -- Narrative -- Reconstructing fragmentary authors -- Part III: Scholarship -- Standards of research -- Historians and records -- Quellenforschung -- Near Eastern records of the past and the Roman imagination -- Grammarians and historians -- The physical process -- Part IV: Presentation -- The problem -- Leopold von Ranke -- Objectivism and relativism -- Fact and presentation: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Lucian -- Fact and presentation: Cicero -- Other forms of presentation -- Verisimilitude -- Epilogue: the discourse of dominance? -- Appendix: classical authors discussed in the text.".
- catalog title "Literary texts and the Roman historian : David S. Potter.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".