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Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography

Beschreibung

Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography contains 11 articles on how the Ancient Roman historians used, and manipulated, the past. Key themes include the impact of autocracy, the nature of intertextuality, and the frontiers between history and other genres.

Autor

Aske Damtoft Poulsen graduated from Lund University in 2018 with a thesis on Accounts of Northern Barbarians in Tacitus' Annales. He is currently Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellow at Bristol University with a project on peace and power in the Roman Principate. Arne Jönsson is professor emeritus in Latin at Lund University. He has specialised in historical-philological research with editions and studies on St. Birgitta of Sweden, Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna, Sophia Elisabet Brenner, and the Linnaeus disciple Daniel Rolander. Contributors are: Rhiannon Ash, Roberto Cristofoli, Aske Damtoft Poulsen, Kyle Khellaf, Christopher B. Krebs, Christina Shuttleworth Kraus, Anne-Marie Leander Touati, Rachel Lilley Love, Ulrike Roth, Kai Ruffing & Johan Vekselius.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9789004445024
• ISBN-10: 9004445021
• Artikelnr.: 60181793