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This is a collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, concentrating especially on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of considering the literature to illuminate the historical Roman context and the historical context to illuminate the literature. It takes the form of a tribute to Tony Woodman, Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, for whom twenty-one scholars have contributed essays reflecting the interests and approaches that have typified Woodman's own work. The authors that he has continuously illuminated - especially Velleius, Horace, Virgil, Sallust, and Tacitus - figure particularly prominently.

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Author:   Christina S. Kraus (Professor of Classics, Yale University) ,  John Marincola (Leon Golden Professor of Classics, Florida State University) ,  Christopher Pelling (Regius Professor of Greek, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.843kg
ISBN:  

9780199558681

ISBN 10:   019955868
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   20 May 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction I. Author and Audience 1: John Moles: Narrative Problems in Thucydides Book I 2: Christina Shuttleworth Kraus: Divide and Conquer: Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7 3: Jane Chaplin: Scipio the Matchmaker 4: T. P. Wiseman: Velleius Mythistoricus II. Quality and Pleasure 5: Anna Chahoud: Romani ueteres atque urbani sales: a Note on Cic. De Orat. 2.262 and Lucilius 173M 6: Elizabeth A. Meyer: Allusion and Contrast in the Letters of Nicias (Thuc. 7.11-15) and Pompey (Sall. Hist. 2.98M) 7: S. P. Oakley: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy on the Horatii and the Curiatii 8: David West: Amores 1.1-5 9: Robin Seager: Rome and Persia 357-9: The Role of Tamsapor III. Poetry and Politics 10: Damien Nelis: Munera uestra cano: The Poet, the Gods and the Thematic Unity of Georgics I 11: John Marincola: Eros and Empire: Virgil and the Historians on Civil War 12: Denis Feeney: Fathers and Sons: The Manlii Torquati and Family Continuity in Catullus and Horace 13: J. G. F. Powell: Juvenal and the Delatores 14: Francis Cairns: Roma and her Tutelary Deities: Names and Associations IV. Tacitus Reviewed 15: Edward Courtney: Seven Passages of the Annals (And One of Manilius) 16: Rhiannon Ash: The Great Escape: Tacitus on the Mutiny of the Usipi (Agricola 28) 17: D. S. Levene: Pompeius Trogus in Tacitus' Annals 18: Richard Rutherford: Voices of Resistance 19: Elizabeth Keitel: The Art of Losing: Tacitus and the Disaster Narrative 20: Cynthia Damon: The Historian's Presence, or There and Back Again 21: Christopher Pelling: The Spur of Fame: Tacitus Annals 4.37-8

Reviews

An impressive array of contributors acknowledge Woodman's influence on their own scholarship, and offer a stimulating range of articles reflecting the range of his interests in ancient rhetoric, poetry and historiography. * James McNamara, Journal of Roman Studies *

An impressive array of contributors acknowledge Woodman's influence on their own scholarship, and offer a stimulating range of articles reflecting the range of his interests in ancient rhetoric, poetry and historiography. James McNamara, Journal of Roman Studies

Author Information

Christina S. Kraus is Professor of Classics at Yale University. John Marincola is Leon Golden Professor of Classics at Florida State University. Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford.

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