David Potter

Literary Texts and the Roman Historian

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Literary Texts and the Roman Historian provides an accessible and concise introduction to the complexities of Roman historiography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780415088954
• ISBN-10: 041508895X
• Artikelnr.: 31576477

Autorenporträt

David S. Potter is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. he is the author of prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire (1990) and Prophets and Emperors: Human and Divine Authority from Augustus to Theodosius (1993)

Inhaltsangabe

Definitions: Historia as Enquiry
Historia as Story
Truth and History
Some Rules
Texts: Sorting Things Out
Participant Evidence
Publication and Literary Fashion
Illustrative Evidence
Narrative
Reconstructing Fragmentary Authors
Scholarship: Standards of Research
Historians and Records
Quellenforschung
Near Eastern Records of the Past and the Roman Imagination
Grammarians and Historians
The Physical Process
Conclusion
Presentation: The Problem
Leopold Ranke
Objectivism and relativism
Fact and Presentation: Lucien and Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Fact and Presentation: Cicero
Other Forms of Presentation
Versimilitude
Conclusion
Epilogue: The Discourse of Dominance
Appendix: Classical Authors Discussed in the Text
Bibliography.